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NAME: Tossino
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CURRENT CHARACTERS: None
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Tsukuyo
CANON: Gintama
AGE: Early 20s
APPEARANCE: Boom
CANON POINT: Chapter 399
BACKGROUND: Her wiki page. It's decent, but as you can see some arcs are a little lacking. So just click the links to the arcs' wiki pages if you want more? If needed, I'll write a summary, but the important stuff should be covered, really.
PERSONALITY: Tsukuyo was raised in the darkness. Darkness was all she knew for her whole life until she met Gintoki, with the only thing she had to call light her master Jiraia and her dear friend Hinowa. For all women raised in Yoshiwara - the hidden red light city under Edo - Hinowa was the only light they knew.
The "hi" in Hinowa's name is written with the kanji for sun, and the "tsuku" in Tsukuyo's name is written with the kanji for moon. Together they were seen as the sun and moon of Yoshiwara, the hope for the women bathed in darkness. For many years, when Tsukuyo thought her master was long dead and gone, her greatest motivation in life was Hinowa. To be as strong as Hinowa had told her to be. To carry on. If someone like Hinowa, who seemed so trapped and without power, could carry on with such strength, then so could Tsukuyo.
For Hinowa, and for the city Hinowa loved, Tsukuyo did what she could. She worked under Housen, officially, but she never truly considered herself under his rule. She was supposed to protect the law of Yoshiwara, as the head of its police force, but what she truly did was protect the women of Yoshiwara. Trying to escape was punishable with death, but Tsukuyo never did kill those women: She hurt them enough for it to look like she punished them, and then recruited them into the force. She saved their lives.
Tsukuyo does what she can. To her it doesn't matter what the consequences may be, because she refuses to live a life in which she does nothing. At the very least, she can endure. As long as you are alive, you can endure, you can do something. Hinowa taught her that what matters is that you live.
Then she learned there are things worth dying for.
When Gintoki came to Yoshiwara, she was prepared to die for something as simple as opening the roof over their heads and letting in the sun. Housen was a Yato, an alien race weak to the sun, and covered the whole city in darkness to escape its rays. Tsukuyo had never thought overly much about fighting to bring it back, and considered Housen unbeatable. Instead she did what she could, and protected the women trapped in the city.
Gintoki said he'd bring back the sun, and so she learned to aim higher. She almost lost her life doing it, but in the end they did bring back the sun. She protects the city with an even fiercer determination than before, fighting for the place she considers her home.
All of her life she has fought for someone else, and tossed herself aside to do so. To become strong, her master Jiraia told her to forget who she was, forget being a woman, because it would weaken her. For a long time, to herself she wasn't enough. People came to love her for her, but she never understood, never thought about it, until Gintoki told her that she is enough. Strong enough, good enough, kind enough, beautiful enough, no matter how scarred or fragile.
After they took the sun back is the first time others have started to see her for who she is, and the first time she's tried doing so herself.
Her struggles with her own identity shows in many ways. When she doesn't want people to look at her because she can't be what she thinks she should be at that moment. When she protests people seeing her as a woman because she doesn't think that's good enough. When she argues that she isn't pretty or beautiful or even trying to accomplish such a thing, because she is scarred and weak and ugly. But she is so much more than that, and she's slowly starting to see it.
She is kind and she values life so much. She saved the women rather than punish them for trying to run away, and intruders she was told to kill she instead tried to help escape the city. She follows her own rule, or Hinowa's, no matter how bad the situation is. She will not kill just because she is ordered to. She wants to save as many as she possibly can.
And she is strong enough to carry her master's burdens. Jiraia manipulated her, tried to form her into his image of perfection, into something he wanted, and as far as he was concerned her new friends were ruining all of his hard work. To make her stronger he was going to burn down all of Yoshiwara and she begged him to stop, to spare them, that she'd go with him and do anything he wanted if he just spared them.
They were too important to her, in his mind. Made her weak. But her care and kindness is what made her able to carry him in the end, when Gintoki had beat him around a while and Tsukuyo in the end killed him to protect Gintoki, she was able to carry her teacher. But more than that, she accepted everything with a quiet resolution, forgave him, and ended it on a silent, peaceful note for the both of them. One that she could carry on from, even with his blood on her hands.
She has struggled and fought and worked hard all her life. From a child in training to become a Yoshiwara woman, to a student under a master shinobi to become something not a woman at all, to a protector and champion of Hinowa and all Yoshiwara's women. She knows how to work hard, and she carries far too much on her shoulders to make herself someone others can rely on, and make sure she takes responsibility. Too much responsibility. That's something Jiraia tried to teach her. Everything is her fault.
What she has more trouble with is having fun. After her master's death, Hinowa worries and asks the Yorozuya to help bring Tsukuyo out of her shell and spend some time with her. Gintoki is reluctant and seems to think it's best to leave her alone, but in the end they're both tricked into it, as Tsukuyo is given a task to take care of a "very special guest" and Gintoki is offered an evening on the house.
It ends a complete mess. Tsukuyo is very weak to alcohol and scares the life out of not only Gintoki, but everyone but Hinowa, with how violent and angry she gets. Though all she really scares them into is joining her in the drinking and knocking them all out. And as soon as she is sober enough, she immediately gets up to patrol.
She is, however, grateful for the effort they put into making her have fun and feel better. It isn't something people do for her often, and it could even possibly be the very first time. Tsukuyo has never had friends like that before the Yorozuya came into her life and Hinowa was freed.
Finally, she can start living her own life, for her. There is no longer anything that holds her back, and it only goes up from there as she finds more and more of herself.
ABILITIES: Trained shinobi. She's very fast and agile and uses speed and acrobatics when fighting, not so much strength. Weapon of choice is a kunai. Or a lot of kunai, rather.
Otherwise, she's just an ordinary human. Not much to see here. She hardly even has other skills aside from fighting to speak of. What a sad life.
INVENTORY: Quite a lot of kunai concealed in various places on her, and then the decorative ones in her hair.
A set of clothing and boots.
A pipe.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: Video thread
LOG SAMPLE: TDM
NAME: Tossino
CONTACT: AIM @ thetossedone,
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Tsukuyo
CANON: Gintama
AGE: Early 20s
APPEARANCE: Boom
CANON POINT: Chapter 399
BACKGROUND: Her wiki page. It's decent, but as you can see some arcs are a little lacking. So just click the links to the arcs' wiki pages if you want more? If needed, I'll write a summary, but the important stuff should be covered, really.
PERSONALITY: Tsukuyo was raised in the darkness. Darkness was all she knew for her whole life until she met Gintoki, with the only thing she had to call light her master Jiraia and her dear friend Hinowa. For all women raised in Yoshiwara - the hidden red light city under Edo - Hinowa was the only light they knew.
The "hi" in Hinowa's name is written with the kanji for sun, and the "tsuku" in Tsukuyo's name is written with the kanji for moon. Together they were seen as the sun and moon of Yoshiwara, the hope for the women bathed in darkness. For many years, when Tsukuyo thought her master was long dead and gone, her greatest motivation in life was Hinowa. To be as strong as Hinowa had told her to be. To carry on. If someone like Hinowa, who seemed so trapped and without power, could carry on with such strength, then so could Tsukuyo.
For Hinowa, and for the city Hinowa loved, Tsukuyo did what she could. She worked under Housen, officially, but she never truly considered herself under his rule. She was supposed to protect the law of Yoshiwara, as the head of its police force, but what she truly did was protect the women of Yoshiwara. Trying to escape was punishable with death, but Tsukuyo never did kill those women: She hurt them enough for it to look like she punished them, and then recruited them into the force. She saved their lives.
Tsukuyo does what she can. To her it doesn't matter what the consequences may be, because she refuses to live a life in which she does nothing. At the very least, she can endure. As long as you are alive, you can endure, you can do something. Hinowa taught her that what matters is that you live.
Then she learned there are things worth dying for.
When Gintoki came to Yoshiwara, she was prepared to die for something as simple as opening the roof over their heads and letting in the sun. Housen was a Yato, an alien race weak to the sun, and covered the whole city in darkness to escape its rays. Tsukuyo had never thought overly much about fighting to bring it back, and considered Housen unbeatable. Instead she did what she could, and protected the women trapped in the city.
Gintoki said he'd bring back the sun, and so she learned to aim higher. She almost lost her life doing it, but in the end they did bring back the sun. She protects the city with an even fiercer determination than before, fighting for the place she considers her home.
All of her life she has fought for someone else, and tossed herself aside to do so. To become strong, her master Jiraia told her to forget who she was, forget being a woman, because it would weaken her. For a long time, to herself she wasn't enough. People came to love her for her, but she never understood, never thought about it, until Gintoki told her that she is enough. Strong enough, good enough, kind enough, beautiful enough, no matter how scarred or fragile.
After they took the sun back is the first time others have started to see her for who she is, and the first time she's tried doing so herself.
Her struggles with her own identity shows in many ways. When she doesn't want people to look at her because she can't be what she thinks she should be at that moment. When she protests people seeing her as a woman because she doesn't think that's good enough. When she argues that she isn't pretty or beautiful or even trying to accomplish such a thing, because she is scarred and weak and ugly. But she is so much more than that, and she's slowly starting to see it.
She is kind and she values life so much. She saved the women rather than punish them for trying to run away, and intruders she was told to kill she instead tried to help escape the city. She follows her own rule, or Hinowa's, no matter how bad the situation is. She will not kill just because she is ordered to. She wants to save as many as she possibly can.
And she is strong enough to carry her master's burdens. Jiraia manipulated her, tried to form her into his image of perfection, into something he wanted, and as far as he was concerned her new friends were ruining all of his hard work. To make her stronger he was going to burn down all of Yoshiwara and she begged him to stop, to spare them, that she'd go with him and do anything he wanted if he just spared them.
They were too important to her, in his mind. Made her weak. But her care and kindness is what made her able to carry him in the end, when Gintoki had beat him around a while and Tsukuyo in the end killed him to protect Gintoki, she was able to carry her teacher. But more than that, she accepted everything with a quiet resolution, forgave him, and ended it on a silent, peaceful note for the both of them. One that she could carry on from, even with his blood on her hands.
She has struggled and fought and worked hard all her life. From a child in training to become a Yoshiwara woman, to a student under a master shinobi to become something not a woman at all, to a protector and champion of Hinowa and all Yoshiwara's women. She knows how to work hard, and she carries far too much on her shoulders to make herself someone others can rely on, and make sure she takes responsibility. Too much responsibility. That's something Jiraia tried to teach her. Everything is her fault.
What she has more trouble with is having fun. After her master's death, Hinowa worries and asks the Yorozuya to help bring Tsukuyo out of her shell and spend some time with her. Gintoki is reluctant and seems to think it's best to leave her alone, but in the end they're both tricked into it, as Tsukuyo is given a task to take care of a "very special guest" and Gintoki is offered an evening on the house.
It ends a complete mess. Tsukuyo is very weak to alcohol and scares the life out of not only Gintoki, but everyone but Hinowa, with how violent and angry she gets. Though all she really scares them into is joining her in the drinking and knocking them all out. And as soon as she is sober enough, she immediately gets up to patrol.
She is, however, grateful for the effort they put into making her have fun and feel better. It isn't something people do for her often, and it could even possibly be the very first time. Tsukuyo has never had friends like that before the Yorozuya came into her life and Hinowa was freed.
Finally, she can start living her own life, for her. There is no longer anything that holds her back, and it only goes up from there as she finds more and more of herself.
ABILITIES: Trained shinobi. She's very fast and agile and uses speed and acrobatics when fighting, not so much strength. Weapon of choice is a kunai. Or a lot of kunai, rather.
Otherwise, she's just an ordinary human. Not much to see here. She hardly even has other skills aside from fighting to speak of. What a sad life.
INVENTORY: Quite a lot of kunai concealed in various places on her, and then the decorative ones in her hair.
A set of clothing and boots.
A pipe.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: Video thread
LOG SAMPLE: TDM
