Name: Yoh Hirowaza (last name/first name)
Gender: Female for all intents and purposes of this RP. Much prefers to be referred to as a "he" and will be referred to as such during the RP.
Age: 14
Origin: He doesn't remember. Meira says she saw an envelope on Hirowaza's person with a faint address scrawled on it. The astute will note the only readable place written on the address was "Kanagawa."
Home: Outskirts of the Human Village, enroute to the Forest of Magic. He lives with Meira and VIVIT, acting as sort of a caretaker and ghetto engineer for the latter.
Occupation: In the real world, he was a former student-cum-ghost hunter. However, he spent more of his time exorcising rather than studying, and eventually had to fall out of it. Now that he's in Gensokyo, he has an excuse to go out on lighter exorcisms that would make Reimu laugh at him for trying too hard at something he'll never be as good as as he once was in the past. When he's not busy trying to make ghosts explode, he carves good luck charms that he tries to sell at the Human Village. His business is not that great, not too many people seem to believe in the occult acts Hirowaza tends to tout as "lucky" that he casts into the charm. Meira finds the business as (quoted verbatim) "a cute attempt at trying to play Kourindou."
Visual Description:
Hair Colour: Jet-black
Hair Style: Long, straight, clean, hime-cut
Eye Colour: Heterochromia, red left eye due to magical influences, hazel right eye (natural eye colour)
Clothing: Characteristically defined by a white coloured turtleneck along with a long, modest, black skirt for as long as his height allows. Another note is he wears a spiked black choker around his neck.
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Here's where things start to get a little iffy. Hirowaza is biologically 14 in this case, but his physical appearance is that of an eighteen year old, excepting that his height is actually the normal height for his age. He is aware of the fact such a physical state is "abnormal" to say the least, but he doesn't remember at all about how this happened to him. His hair is shoulder-length, jet-black in color, rather ordinary, indeed, as it is kept straight for the most part. To say he is well-endowed would be a ridiculous understatement, he would make most people with implants annoyed and jealous - that is to say Hirowaza doesn't really enjoy having such huge breasts in the first place... You know what, just go watch
Eiken and it'll be clear. Anyway, his body is not really slender, but not chubby, seems to be quite fitting of his large... uh, chest. Very femininely mature, which betrays his actual age. Again, Hirowaza has no knowledge of how he arrived in this form, except the vague memory of being immolated by
something. To hide his humongous chest he wears a really tight sarashi, which occasionally restricts his breathing and hurts him something fierce. His face is nothing special, though, his eyes are something to note. He has an awkward case of heterochromia - his magickal nature have rendered his left eye permanently stained red with the colour of his mana trace, whereas his right eye remains hazel, which was his natural eye colour.
In terms of wardrobe, Hirowaza is surprisingly modern. He doesn't like wearing the traditional clothing as he once was forced to in the real world due to his family. He became more modest and has donned a long-sleeved white turtleneck accompanied with an equally simple black, long skirt. He doesn't like to wear jackets, so he wears these in case it gets cold outside. He does not wear ornaments aside from a spiked black choker he does not recall ever getting, but wears it anyway because "VIVIT thought it looked nice."
Personality: Hirowaza is overly serious to a fault. He doesn't like screwing around too much unless he feels too lazy to do something, in which case it turns into apathy rather than outrightly being laidback. He's also got quite the mouth, you would never expect a fourteen year-old to be able to speak the way he does, sometimes unnecessarily vulgar or sardonic. However, he does try to be tactful about things, unless he's provoked too far or he's feeling particularly passionate about something. Unfortunately, Hirowaza gets offended by things easily and can't really handle jokes too well. Despite these glaring flaws in his character, he is, for the most part, a reliable ally to have both in terms of the battlefield and in terms of life, for he seems to be able to know things far beyond his age. Not even he knows why. While he does have a bit of a short fuse, he is for the most part a very dedicated person to most things and also very heartless in the hunt, allowing his inhibitions in normal situations to be thrown aside and easily step toe to toe with a dangerous entity, whether it be to protect someone or for revenge.
As a result Hirowaza isn't the most approachable person in a crowd. It takes more than just being nice to be able to know him really well. Sometimes you can cheat if you know how to press his buttons, but for the most part he tends to be quite intimidating. However, if you do manage to get him to warm up to you, he's not such a bad person. He is simply just bitter from his past experiences and vengeful at the nature of man, thus he greatly enjoys the company of his companions Meira and VIVIT (the latter serving as a reminder of his otherworldly nature). At the end of the day, Hirowaza is just a loner in the world trying to fight for answers to not only his own questions, but eventually for the safety of the greater good. Why else would he have become so zealous to ghost-hunt with his powers?
Goals/Objectives/Ambitions:
1) To find the answer behind his curse
2) To find out more about his past, and why he is the way he is now
3) To survive
History/Background:
Hirowaza was born to a clan of exorcists and ghost hunters, similar in vein to the exorcism abilities of a certain Reimu Hakurei, though of weaker strength. As a result, he was brought into training at a very young age and underwent rigorous regimes, which hardened his resolve and for the most part moulded him into a very serious person. However, unlike his family who developed basic Japanese exorcism abilities, Hirowaza was gifted with a far more advanced ability, which seemed to be unknown at the time. This was the ability to invoke strange enchanted weaponry and trinkets from magical charms he conjured from his mind. Hirowaza would later dub this the art of "Charmcraft." For the most part, his knowledge of the craft helped him eliminate the poltergeists and ghosts he saw, but he was having a difficult time living up to the standards of his parents as he was also studying as a student. Eventually, his abuse of the overpowered nature of "Charmcraft" started to take his toll on him. The infectious magickal energies invoked after every casting started to have visibly negative effects on Hirowaza. For instance, his left eye became stained with a magickal overload, which is now a blood red in color, leaving a trail of magick with every movement of his head. This made him a target of ostracizing by people at school, as they were afraid of abnormality and the "unknown." He also looked very feminine at the time and girly, making him a common target of harassment by males, which has led him to become bitter and vengeful towards them.
Eventually, Hirowaza was asked to stop attending school and continue the ghost hunting business, which he reluctantly agreed to do. As the effects of Charmcraft became more and more dangerous, Hirowaza started falling sick very often. His parents noted this and decided to visit a fellow onmyoudou to see what was up. The onmyoudou could not decipher what the sickness was at the core, all he could predict was that Hirowaza was undergoing a process that many of those that follow "a certain faith," in his words, were striving to achieve. It seemed that after that seemingly useless counsel, that night, there was a loud noise. His parents went to see the source of the noise, and found that it was in Hirowaza's room, and that the original body of Hirowaza had strangely been replaced by that of a little girl with what seemed to be... an unusually healthy chest for her age. What Hirowaza was wearing was also on the girl, but most seemed to be burned. They were clueless for a few moments until they remembered what the onmyoudou had said, and then they sighed in relief. Hirowaza had somehow taken the form of a little girl overnight, and he did not know how it came to be. He tried tapping into his abilities, but for the most part had been severely weakened. He surmised this was a lesson of his overuse of the ability. He shrugged and continued living life for a few months.
One night during the 11th month of the year, there would be a traditional celebration held by his family to commemorate the establishment of the clan, which had been living for several hundreds of years. Hirowaza was not interested with such egregious gatherings, so he opted to spend some time at the local shrine in his area. He donated an unusually large amount of money to the osaisen box and spent some time in contemplation by the shrine's main complex, wondering what had happened. Soon, he sat down and fell asleep sitting down. While he slept, he encountered a strange vision where he swore he could see someone who looked like his long lost sister fighting with... someone who looked a lot like himself. He could hear the words being spoken loudly and clearly. "
No matter what you do, you are doomed to the most agonizing death of all - the death of your soul. You are cursed with this gift of yours, your soul is slowly being eaten away." Hirowaza tried to make sense of these words, but another voice spoke. "
You are burning, both gloriously, and in lament, for the burning of your soul is like the flame on the candle flickering - it could go out at any time." Hirowaza was shocked to find this out, but when he woke up from his deep sleep and snapped out of his vision, he found himself in front of a small house on a lonely hill somewhere nearby a forest and a small settlement. He had somehow landed into Gensokyo for no discernable reason.
When he woke from his slumber, he heard the battle cry of a woman behind him, he stood and deflected the attack with one of his Charms. The woman seemed like a ronin of sorts, this woman would be known to be Meira, who would become one of Hirowaza's closest companions in this world. She was impressed by his awareness, to which Hirowaza responded "It comes in the job description." Eventually, Meira forced the stranger's story out of him, and learned he was similar to Reimu. This idea scared her at first, but after Hirowaza insisted he definitely had nothing that could hurt or kill anyone in Gensokyo, Meira felt it would be alright to lead him around and show him the ropes. At first, Meira turned Hirowaza into her errand boy, and had him go to the Human Village often to do errands for her, or go to the forest to get firewood. Eventually, Meira felt it was the right time to "promote" him to someone of equal stature, it had been more than a year now. Eventually, the two became sparring partners to hone their skills. Then, Hirowaza brought up his strange vision to Meira, and wondered if he could ask anyone about it. Then she advised to ask "the strange girl in the forest with many books and dolls," to which Hirowaza wondered if she was really the right person to ask as opposed to just conveniently visiting a certain Library.
Meira insisted on Hirowaza's trip to the Forest of Magic and in several moments he was kicked out and forced to go. Sighing and keeping his chin up, he ventured into the forest. During his search for the dollmaster, he found a strange "wreckage" in a clearing in the forest. It seemed to be fresh, as the mess in a crater was still smoking a lot. Hirowaza sighed and just couldn't bring himself to leave it there, for he could sense that this was actually... something more than just a wreckage. Instead of visiting the dollmaster, he took the wreckage back home.
"What the hell is this?" was the response he got.
Hirowaza sighed and wondered if he could get the mess fixed. After several months of repeatedly visiting the shop in the Forest, Kourindou, Hirowaza was finally able to fix the machine with help from his Charms, and reactivated the machine which looked somewhat like a robot maid, but not quite. The robotic entity introduced herself politely to be VIVIT and made herself known to Meira and Hirowaza, who then suddenly felt sick. While he was outside, Meira asked VIVIT what kind of energy she ran on. The response she got was some sort of energy called Saboten. She had no idea what it was and dismissed it as hogwash. When Hirowaza returned, presumably to throw up, he inquired about what he had missed. VIVIT explained how she worked, and that she ran on an energy typed Saboten. Hirowaza tilted his head and asked how Saboten worked. VIVIT said she wasn't sure, but Hirowaza remained suspicious - when VIVIT was activated, some magickal energies within him reacted harshly and made him feel sick. He sighed and knew that VIVIT's presence would hamper him from using Charmcraft effectively, but he couldn't bring himself to leave a machine like that alone, he wanted to have her around. Meira could tell that Hirowaza was actually feeling a little lonely and respected the decision. Soon, the robotic maid became a mainstay in the Meira household.
Things became a lot more exciting and Meira could tell that Hirowaza was truly at his happiest now, and not much could really change that - outside of the shenanigans the three had, Hirowaza was mostly way too serious and cold. That changed when it was the three of them at her house. He became nice and started to collect wood from the forest to try carving, as he was able to be a ghetto engineer in repairing VIVIT. He then started a small business selling the "good luck charms" he crafted. Unfortunately, he hasn't been doing too well. On the side, Hirowaza is now currently allowed by Meira to go around on his own trying to practice his exorcisms.
Thema:
Dream-colored Chaser (sung by Ayukawa Mami)
Kikousenki Dragunar OPKimerareta michi wo tada aruku yori mo
Eranda jiyuu ni kidutsuku hou ga ii
taoreru made hashirukurai
atsuku ikite mitaikaraFun Facts (optional): Despite Hirowaza's past, he would much rather be referred to as a "he" than a "she." In spite of the body change, he somehow still feels he should be called a male. He hopes nobody will ever see him unclothed. Realistically speaking, VIVIT and his own curse are extremely limiting factors to his fighting ability - should the Saboten influence be absent, Hirowaza is probably able to hold his own against other youkai. He refuses to back down from a fight once he either picks one or gets into one, as well, and it takes protests of more than one person to get him to stop, unless it's from Meira or from VIVIT.
Additional Info: (later)
Relationships: (later)
