Player nickname: Orlando Player LJ:elspeth_vimes Way to contact you: Email: agreylady@gmail.com AIM: Elspeth Vimes Other: ElspethVimes on plurk Are you at least 15?: Y. Current Characters: Batou, Alberich, Ivan Vanko, Christopher Carrion, November 11, Megamind
Character: Sumimura Masamori Fandom:Kekkaishi (manga) Character Notes: History: Masamori was born into the Sumimura family, one of the two families of Kekkaishi ("barrier masters") which have for generations protected the sacred and magically dangerous ground of Karasumori (on top of which a combined middle and high school now sits). Unlike his grandfather, Masamori was not born with the "houin" mark on his right hand that would mark him as a legitimate successor, the most honored and useful of Kekkaishi. But that was of little consequence. After all, Masamori's mother wasn't a legitimate successor either (though incredibly powerful and skilled). The mark has been known to skip a number of generations, especially when one legitimate successor is still alive. Masamori was smart and gifted, and started receiving training for his abilities at a young age. You don't have to be a legitimate successor to protect Karasumori.
Then, when Masamori was seven, his younger brother Yoshimori was born. Yoshimori had the houin mark.
Since then Masamori's life has revolved around two things- excelling at what he does and wondering why he wasn't chosen to be a legitimate successor. This isn't to say he was a bad brother- he cares and he tried to be helpful and understanding. But he was left constantly questioning himself, and more than a little angry, with the result that at the very least he came across as aloof (to Yoshimori, that is. to others he was a more positive figure).
Once he graduated from high school, Masamori left home and joined the Urakai, an organization of people with unusual abilities who, for one reason or another, either couldn't inherent the family business or had none to inherit. The Urakai investigate and resolve paranormal matters which cannot be solved by other means, and attempt to generally regulate the unseen world of Japan. Upon joining the organization Masamori was largely tutored by "the immortal" Mudou, a man with a somewhat Machiavellian world view but who taught and was well-respected by the younger members of the Urakai. Masamori found himself discontent with the existing structure of the Urakai and, encouraged by Mudou, founded his own task force. The Yagyou ("Night Troop"), as they came to be called, became a group which specialized in eliminating urgent threats, and was largely composed of younger members, doubling as both a form of on-the-job training and, for many, serving as a family. As the chief of the Yagyou, Masamori obtained a great deal of status and power within the Urakai at a remarkably young age (at the most, he would have been twenty, it's more likely he put this together when he was nineteen). But that power is insufficient- he's aiming for the executive committee, the Council of Twelve.
If accepted, I'll be taking him from just a touch before his first physical appearance in chapter 30. Mudou has just recently defected and become an ayakashi, leaving the seventh seat on the Council of Twelve open and Masamori poised to take it. He might also be subtly encouraging a certain ayakashi user to go to Karasumori and see what happens, but you can't prove that.
Sumimura Masamori (reserved) 1/?
Player LJ:
Way to contact you:
Email: agreylady@gmail.com
AIM: Elspeth Vimes
Other: ElspethVimes on plurk
Are you at least 15?: Y.
Current Characters: Batou, Alberich, Ivan Vanko, Christopher Carrion, November 11, Megamind
Character: Sumimura Masamori
Fandom: Kekkaishi (manga)
Character Notes:
History:
Masamori was born into the Sumimura family, one of the two families of Kekkaishi ("barrier masters") which have for generations protected the sacred and magically dangerous ground of Karasumori (on top of which a combined middle and high school now sits). Unlike his grandfather, Masamori was not born with the "houin" mark on his right hand that would mark him as a legitimate successor, the most honored and useful of Kekkaishi. But that was of little consequence. After all, Masamori's mother wasn't a legitimate successor either (though incredibly powerful and skilled). The mark has been known to skip a number of generations, especially when one legitimate successor is still alive. Masamori was smart and gifted, and started receiving training for his abilities at a young age. You don't have to be a legitimate successor to protect Karasumori.
Then, when Masamori was seven, his younger brother Yoshimori was born. Yoshimori had the houin mark.
Since then Masamori's life has revolved around two things- excelling at what he does and wondering why he wasn't chosen to be a legitimate successor. This isn't to say he was a bad brother- he cares and he tried to be helpful and understanding. But he was left constantly questioning himself, and more than a little angry, with the result that at the very least he came across as aloof (to Yoshimori, that is. to others he was a more positive figure).
Once he graduated from high school, Masamori left home and joined the Urakai, an organization of people with unusual abilities who, for one reason or another, either couldn't inherent the family business or had none to inherit. The Urakai investigate and resolve paranormal matters which cannot be solved by other means, and attempt to generally regulate the unseen world of Japan. Upon joining the organization Masamori was largely tutored by "the immortal" Mudou, a man with a somewhat Machiavellian world view but who taught and was well-respected by the younger members of the Urakai. Masamori found himself discontent with the existing structure of the Urakai and, encouraged by Mudou, founded his own task force. The Yagyou ("Night Troop"), as they came to be called, became a group which specialized in eliminating urgent threats, and was largely composed of younger members, doubling as both a form of on-the-job training and, for many, serving as a family. As the chief of the Yagyou, Masamori obtained a great deal of status and power within the Urakai at a remarkably young age (at the most, he would have been twenty, it's more likely he put this together when he was nineteen). But that power is insufficient- he's aiming for the executive committee, the Council of Twelve.
If accepted, I'll be taking him from just a touch before his first physical appearance in chapter 30. Mudou has just recently defected and become an ayakashi, leaving the seventh seat on the Council of Twelve open and Masamori poised to take it. He might also be subtly encouraging a certain ayakashi user to go to Karasumori and see what happens, but you can't prove that.