+1 Flirty Kni--er, College Student

[wordsgate]

Hiya, Earthlings! I'm a new player, Haley, and I am SUPER excited to be here omg you have no idea.

This is Sasame from the ultra-shoujo magical girl anime known as Prétear! (Info post here, app here.) In his former life, Sasame was a handsome host of a popular pop-psychology radio show for teenage girls...who was actually an endlessly-reincarnating knight sworn to protect the life energy of the world, using his abilities to control the element of sound, as well as granting the Prétear/Chosen One the ability to transform into a magical girl through sex combining their life energy together and becoming one.

(No, I have no idea how "sound" became an element. They needed seven knights so they could say it's a retelling of Snow White so I'm guessing they just ran out of ideas really quickly.)

In his current life, Sasame is now Sasame Iwata--who chose to go by "Sam" because it's way, way easier for Americans to spell and remember. He's a former teen dreamboat who is now an college student at LCU with a talent for music, but has given up his dreams of being a musician and is instead studying psychology (partially due to his hard-working but somewhat strict single mother, who will NOT have her only child playing a saxophone on the street for quarters).

Sasame Sam (boy that's going to take a while to get used to) has actually resisted the urge to try out his number until now, so he's going to be dropped right into the middle of the action with no idea about what's going on! Fun!

Two semi-important notes: Sam has had a reputation since high school of being a flirt, and it's pretty well known that he's dated several girls in quick succession since then--just a little under 20 girls in about 5 years. Feel free to have your character know this, or even know an NPC ex-girlfriend of his. (I'd also be happy to have pre-game CR that assumes your character is one of Sam's ex-girlfriends if you'd like--feel free to contact me if you want to do this and we can work out the details.)

Also! Although Sam's reincarnated from the anime version of Sasame, I'm using a lot of manga icons because I like the expressions there, and with his reincarnated appearance change he actually looks quite a bit like the manga version anyway.

Cool, that should be everything! I use plurk a lot for getting to know people and discussing game stuff, so please feel free to friend me on Plurk at brightblueink! For those of you that don't like plurk, you can also get a hold of me through email at HaleySings[at]gmail[dot]com or plain 'ol PMs.

Comments

[iaijutsu]

Sup! I'm Sam (ahaha) and I play Hajime #2 Saitou from Hakuouki (though he's currently going by Hajime Fujisai). He's also around the local university. Biochem/pre-med, so idk that they'd run into each other, but I bet we can make magic happen!

/quietly adds on plurk

[wordsgate]

Man I saw your name after I chose Sasame's reincarnated name and I was all "Oh man this is going to be confusing." XD But hello!! I'm really excited to see Hajime around here because when I got Hakuouki for the PSP he was totally the first character I went after. (Although I haven't completed the entire game yet, just his route...I need to get on that.)

I can see them only having a passing knowledge of each other at best...but they'll get to know each other pretty well in the coming invasion, I'm sure. |D

[iaijutsu]

I was in a game with like four Sams once. I CAN HANDLE THIS. \o/

Saitou is my favorite character forever but I actually think his route is lackluster compared to the others, so I highly recommend finishing it!

[wordsgate]

Wow, I actually really enjoyed his route, too, so that definitely makes me want to play the others! (Although there were some stuff I didn't like about it...like how passive the MC seemed to be on his route. I complained about it to my brother and then he played the game for shits and giggles and then he told me "My protagonist just took a bullet for her guy! =D" and he rubbed it in because he knew it would irritate me, pfft.)

[iaijutsu]

The other routes are a little better at being different, which is what gets to me. Different final antagonists and whatnot...but Saitou's route skates kind of close to Hijikata's, but Hijikata's route does a better job of characterizing some of the supporting cast where they fall flat on Saitou's. That was what really made all the difference in the world to me - Saitou's route is great for Saitou and not so much for everybody else.

I also think it's a good one to play first, though, for that very reason...although I might just be biased since that's how I did it too, haha.

[wordsgate]

Ooh, I see, so it sort of has a tunnel vision affect?

[iaijutsu]

Mostly it just feels to me like it's the point where they just kind of went "EH, GOOD ENOUGH" and phoned in the rest. On the other hand, his route in the prequel game is fantastic if only we'd get it in English. cry.

[wordsgate]

Well, there's a small chance that we might, right? We got two games in the series, after all...

[iaijutsu]

I'm still hoping they'll bring it to us on some system, but I doubt we'd get it on PSP. Gamestop won't even take PSP preorders at store locations anymore, only online. :/

[wordsgate]

oh, right, I keep forgetting that the PSP isn't really a current system anymore. ^^; I still use mine a ton.