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[Player name] Jensen
[Age] 23
[Personal Journal] Walking_horse_girl
[Other characters currently played] N/A

[Character name] Tatsumi
[Age] 20+
[Canon] Shiki
[Point in time taken from canon] Manga Chapter 40 right as Natsuno pulls him into the chasm.

[Background]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiki_%28novel_series%29

http://shiki.wikia.com/wiki/Tatsumi

[Personality]

Tatsumi is a character that many see as a cute person at first. While this may be true, for the people observing him the reality of whom and what he really is isn’t shown until a later time. Still, he is a fairly complex character; he has a few defining traits that do not change even as the manga reveals unknown things.

The first impression Tatsumi gives off is the impression of being happy-go-lucky, friendly, and even a little slow to gather things. It gives him an almost pitiful demeanor. However, this is all just a well-planned and trained rouse. Tatsumi is, literally, a person that would like nothing better than to see the world burn away and crumble. At his core, he is a Nihilist, someone that believes there is no meaning to living; still, he likes to find enjoyment and entertainment in things. In the end, though, he wants to watch everything burn and to die having watched the world end around him, and to have this means he needs to come off as innocent and harmless. That way he can watch on the sidelines while people suffer and no one would be the wiser that he had involvement in the matter.

With all of that Tatsumi is, needless to say, a master at manipulation. He is able to arrange an entire situation into looking like he wasn’t at fault or that he never even knew the situation was happening. His ability for manipulation also stretches into his duties as a servant for the Kirishiki family, more importantly Sunako. Tatsumi is the care figure and teacher for new Shiki, but also the strong arm and cruel figure of the Kirishiki family. He is easily able to gain control over subordinates by threatening things they care about, threatening them with torture, and even threatening them with death. Tatsumi is able to find out what means the most to them and then manipulate and control things from behind or clearly in front of them. Since he’s a werewolf - or Jinrou, a Shiki that can walk in daylight - he can easily hold any kind of threat for death true with any normal Shiki.

In being able to threaten and perform these punishments, Tatsumi is a very cruel person and it extends to the point of sadism. Finding enjoyment in seeing others suffer, he would order someone to kill their best friend or even their family. Then, he watches in the background as they decide to end the other person’s life or face the punishment and possible fact of their own death. This isn’t limited to just the newly formed Shiki; he also states that he loves to watch Sunako suffer so beautifully. He gets a thrill from it and clearly loves to see what might happen. This, however, also serves the purpose of proving his total control over those he is higher than: ruling with fear and forced respect over earned respect and kindness.

Tatsumi likes to keep one step ahead of whomever he might be dealing with; this makes him cunning and intelligent. Tatsumi loves observing and is very good at lying in wait while he gathers information and stalks his “prey” or subordinates. In this way he can easily spot out weaknesses and then twist a situation to hurt the person the most. He can easily foresee conflicts because of this ability. On a few occasions, he has predicted something might happen differently than he instructed and he is quickly able to keep calm while he deals with it or lets it play out. Just being able to remain calm even with unexpected surprises shows that he is great at keeping control, no matter what might happen. That isn’t to say he doesn’t still get annoyed or angry when someone starts to mess with his planning out of an event. However, if that does happen he is quick to eliminate the problem in the equation either by instructing others or by doing it himself. He doesn’t tolerate opposition from anyone - especially not if it messes with the master plan.

In regards to the master plan, to turn an entire village of humans into a village of Shiki, Tatsumi knows the plan is a failure from the start. Yet, he still does as he’s told instead getting enjoyment out of seeing how much this might fail. Even with knowing this might all fail he still has a degree of protectiveness over the Shiki, like Sunako. He doesn’t tolerating people hunting them and goes to certain lengths to save Sunako. It is revealed that this is really for his own selfish enjoyment. The Jinrou wants to be able to watch the world crumble since the laws of nature don’t allow a predator, the Shiki, to overpopulate a prey, the humans. Tatsumi wants to see it happen so he can be the last one to die after he has seen it all destroyed before his eyes.

Still, he does hold some respect for Sunako because he stated without her he wouldn’t have been able to live as long as he had. So even with his feelings and knowing he is superior to Shiki, he considers himself a down to earth thinker; he willingly obeys orders and doesn't really throw around that he is that much more special that normal Shiki or that Shiki are those who couldn’t become Jinrou. Instead, he just tries to help the lonely girl Sunako achieve her doomed plan. This makes it hard to see if he is really kind or just cruel.

As far as relationships with Tatsumi go he gets along, in a loose term, with most. If he doesn’t like someone he is quick to let them know, but if he likes someone he is willing to let them hang around for entertainment. There are few he has some form of true respect for because most he simply sees as stepping stones on his way to something he wants or needs.

Sunako is one of the few he respects even though he still sees most of her dreams as pointless. He holds a little respect in what she wants to achieve in the world. She is the symbol of perish and destruction to him. In a world defended by justice, law, and order, she’s an antisocial antagonist to him. That excited him and gave him entertainment, so in this fact he forms a kind of respect for her.

Outside of his household he holds both annoyance and a little respect for Yuuki Natsuno and Toshi Ozaki. They were the first to find out about the Shiki, so he has respect in the fact they are intelligent and smart - but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have distain for them. The first he dealt with was Yuuki Natsuno mostly because the boy decided to try to hunt them, which is a big no-no; but, when he was revived a Jinrou Tatsumi held more respect for him since it was a rare occurrence. In the end, though, he held a great deal of hatred for the other when he was the reason for his death even if he found it amusing that someone had bested him at the time.

Ozaki, on the other hand, was a problem for him, but he did respect his efforts despite still striving to show he was smarter and more equipped. In the end, Ozaki became an even bigger problem for the Shiki. This is a good example of how his need to entertain himself and Sunako’s rule came to get him in the end.

Other Shiki, like Tohru and Megumi, are like pawns for the Jinrou. While he acts like he is friendly and kind to them he does see them as inferior, and lets them know that fact with his threats on their lives. He knows they will all die off again in the end even if the master plan was to work.

Everything rots away and perishes in the end; nothing can last forever.


[Abilities]

Tatsumi is a Jinrou - which is a stronger version of a Shiki - but first I'll explain what a Shiki is since you need to understand one to know the other.

A Shiki is a living dead or vampire; they are humans that have risen from the dead after being drained of blood by another Shiki, though not all humans can become Shiki. It has to do with genetics, but also with the ability to become one. It’s been stated that if both parents of a child don’t become a Shiki, then the child has a 0% chance of rising; if one parent does become a Shiki, then the child has a 50% chance. So, if both parents rise then it’s close to a 100% chance that the child will, too. It’s really just a game of chance if you become one or not. Plus, if a Shiki doesn’t rise within 5 days, then they will not rise at all. It’s a waiting game expect for the Jinrou who can sniff out whether someone will stay dead or rise.

Once a person has become a Shiki, they no longer breathe or have a pulse, and they are cold to the touch; but, they also have the need to feed on blood - human blood, specifically - in order to survive. Without it they suffer a horrible hunger that many can’t survive and they end up wasting away or attack the first human they see. Though they can have normal liquids, they can’t eat any kind of human food.

Shiki have the ability to be able to regenerate quickly from any wound or injury. To a degree they can levitate above the ground. They keep the same amount of strength they held as a human. Shiki can also use a form of hypnosis to put their victims under their complete control, though it works on a priority system. The first person to drink from from them has greater control than the second. But, along with all of that, a weakness Shiki have is that they can’t stand religious artifacts; it creates a primal fear in them even if they had no such fear when they were alive. Another weakness that they have is that they enter a coma-like state when the sun begins to rise, so they quickly need to seek shelter beforehand or they will be burned by the sunlight.

Besides sunlight, the only ways to kill a Shiki are to stake them through the heart or decapitate them. Another flaw with both Shiki and Jinrou is the fact they cannot enter a house without first being invited, even if they once lived there. Once they die. they are no longer part of the household. Until the family dies or leaves they may not enter if they are not invited.

Now, some of this is the same for a Jinrou - or werewolf - but there are major differences as well.

First, Jinrou never truly die like a Shiki; their body simply redesigns into that of a Jinrou. This sub-species of Shiki is very rare. Tatsumi states to Natsuno at one point that only 4-5 Jinrou exist within the whole of Japan’s Shiki population. He believes that Shiki are simply those who couldn’t reach the ability of becoming a Jinrou.

Some other major differences are in the fact that Jinrou can walk in daylight, have a pulse, breathe, survive on normal food and liquid (not needing blood, though they need it to unlock their full potentials as a Jinrou). Their five senses are extremely heightened and they are much stronger than a normal person or Shiki, making them considerably harder to kill.


[Other important stuff]

Tatsumi is a horrible person and will likely try to control or use forms of hypnosis on people. I will make sure to put up an permissions post because he is the way he is.

Shiki, including Jinrou, eyes change from their normal color to black with a red pupil. This gives them a more unreal look and, assuming, gives him better sight in darkness since it's been mentioned that the dark is their realm.

[Sample post]
[First Person]

[First Person]
[Italicized=Thoughts]

[Well, this was interesting. Why would anyone really want to interview him? Still, he can play along with this if it means he can get back to what he was doing before. He needed to figure out what was going on and, more importantly, what anyone he knows might have been talking about.]

Really, it’s kind of fun to be interviewed like this. Go ahead and ask away. [Don’t expect the truth out of me for everything.]

- What were you doing before now?

What I was doing? I was working as a servant of the Kirishiki family. Most of it was simple work: helping with chores, driving if needed, and caring for the mistress, master, and their daughter. [This wasn’t a lie but not the entire truth either.]

- If you were to describe yourself in one sentence, what would that be?

In a sentence: I’m easy to get along with and I don’t mind making new friends in a new place. Does that work well enough for you? [This was more of a stretching of the truth, though it was speckled with lies.]

- If someone provoked or attacked you, what would you do?

Attacked me? That would be scary, wouldn’t it? I think it would depend on the situation- I don’t know why someone would attack me. But, I guess if my life was in danger I would need to fight back. [Actually he would easily kill someone if they attacked him… if they dared to even attack him in the first place. Provoking was a mistake, too.]

- Would you consider yourself a power hungry individual?

Ahaha, how can a simple servant be power hungry?


- Murder. What is your opinion?

You like to ask such scary questions, Mr. Interviewer! Though with murder, I don’t know if I could do it… but I think every person has the capability of killing another person. [He has killed many, but he doesn’t need to say that.]

- Do you prefer the city or living out in the country? Why?

The country is so much nicer than the city. So much noise and there is such a fast pace in the city. In the country, you can really get to know everyone around you; everyone is so welcoming, even to strangers. It’s a place where you rarely need to lock your door or not trust your neighbor. [Plus it makes it a lot easier to take advantage of simple people.]

- Oh no! Someone tripped and injured themselves right in front of you! What do you do?

Isn’t it obvious? I would help them back to their feet and make sure they are okay. If I tripped, I would hope people would do the same after all.

- Would you prefer being the stalker, or the one being stalked? And what would you do?

Another one like this... what kind of people do you normally interview? [Was this idiot actually thinking he would answer these kinds of questions truthfully?] Hm… if it was between the two, I guess I wouldn’t want to be stalked. I don’t know if I would really stalk a person either though unless I liked them? That’s something for younger kids to do. [This was a lie. He loved nothing more than observing people and learning what their patterns were at all times.]

Well, that was fun and I hope you were able to get the information you needed. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go talk to some friends of mine.


[Third Person]
The entire day had been less then thrilling for Tatsumi.

First, he had foolishly let his guard down and got shot in his neck only to have been pulled into that chasm by Yuuki Natsuno. He then landed hard on the ground in some damn field instead of falling onto the rocks below. Just the pain of the shot in his neck was enough to make him growl in annoyance, making him think of Natsuno.

“Yuuki Natsuno.” His voice was a growl as he spoke the name.

He already made the promise that he would make that little brat suffer if and when he found him. However, this place seemed to want to make that kind of thing hard since it seemed to randomly pulled people here. The basics were still a little confusing, but he could easily iron those details out once he found someone that was better informed of this place and the reasons for them being brought here. For the moment, however, he just wanted to find a place to recover from his wound. Tatsumi could only assume that still had his normal abilities here; if he didn’t have them, he might have died already.

Hands covering the holes on either side of his neck, he could feel the warm liquid still running from the wounds. Something like this wasn’t likely to kill him. But, normal and new human’s reaction to his wound and the fact he was walking might cause problems - problems he really didn’t want in a new location. Humans tended to talk about different things frequently. So, he counted himself lucky when he found a scarf that had been discarded on the ground. Thanks to the dark color, he was easily able to hide the wound under it as he walked. All that he needed now was a temporary shelter to stay in until he could gather himself. In his current state he would be quick to attack someone or show his true self.

After what felt like an hour, a house with no blocking barrier came to his sight.

“This will do for now,” he panted out softly to himself. Not about to let the house get out of his grasp, he entered the house and locked the door behind him, back against the wall. Finally, he was able to be out of other's sight for the moment. With a grunt, he slid down the wall until he was seated on the ground. For the moment he left the blood soaked scarf around his neck while he examined the phone… his Dreamberry.

It wasn’t something new; just a simple phone, though it felt like there was more to it. Fidgeting with the device for a few moments he started to see people that had been talking with the use of it. The number of people surprised him, but a smile started to come to his lips.

Well… this place might be more interesting than he thought.


[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] Tatsumi is a character that I greatly love even with how horrible of a person he is. He can easily immerse himself into any given situation and then learn the best way to adapt and even control it. It's because of this fact I love to see how he responds to new people and even cast mates that might have spoken when he knows they never would back home.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] no playercest - I have seen this happen in a game before and it kind of makes me wonder why someone would want to play with just themselves 0o.
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] From the Natsuno player! But also Moe <3
[Any questions?]