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[CANON] Soga no Tojiko || Touhou Project || Reserved
Name: Badge
Age: 30
Personal Journal:
E-mail: bodgerkirin@hotmail.com
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CHARACTER
Name: Soga no Tojiko
Canon: Touhou Project.
Age: Dead, but estimated somewhere around 1400 years old.
Timeline: Post Hopeless Masquerade
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Tojiko is a Bourei, or resentful spirit. To that effect, she's a pretty irritable sort of person, easy to infuriate. However, despite the fact that her capacity for utilizing powerful lightning indicates a very high level of vengefulness, Tojiko has actually largely let go of the grudge she's held for humans. Still, she doesn't go out of her way to make friends. In all honesty, the only human or human-like people she gets along with are Toyosatomimi no Miko, the would be great leader she threw her hat behind, and Mononobe no Futo, her rival/friend. That isn't to say she couldn't warm up to others given the opportunity, but that would, well, require getting past the obstacle of her short temper.
Tojiko does not tolerate idiots. If she had any Buddhist patience when she was alive, that has pretty much evaporated in her current state as a manifestation of pure resent. Most of the time this aspect of her personality presents itself as a snappish, sardonic attitude, but pester her enough and she'll quickly become quite angry. You'll know it's probably a good idea to leave well enough alone when you start seeing little sparks off the metal in the area.
Her Symposium of Post-Mysticism entry denotes her as ill-bred. Despite being a member of one of the two major warring clans, Tojiko's language and demeanor is coarse and blunt. She's actually a tidy and organized person otherwise, but by the standards of her era she's quite rude. She also has a slightly old-fashioned way of talking, though, so it comes off a little strange.
However, she's also described as tender-hearted. Sure enough, underneath that rough, short-tempered exterior is someone who possesses more empathy that expected of someone with her personality. She detests seeing the undeserving suffer, and may even feel for an enemy who is otherwise showing genuine distress. This aspect of her personality is one of the biggest carry-overs from her time alive, and while it was suppressed for the longest time in the headiest days of her grudge, it has slowly worked its way back in.
A couple of final quirks: Tojiko generally doesn't view youkai in quite the same negative light as Miko, and certainly nowhere near the negative light Futo does. Living for hundreds of years as a ghost tends to defang notions that youkai are evil or impure. She again doesn't go out of her way to be friendly, but she can't really be bothered about them otherwise. She also, owing to the various little hints she's gotten of the outside world due to the occasional trespasser to the mausoleum and overhead airplane during her ghost years, developed something of a fascination with modern technology, and wants to learn as much about it as she can. Mind, having been locked in a mausoleum for hundreds of years, her concept of "modern technology" covers a shockingly wide time period.
Background: In life, Tojiko was a member of the Soga family who, along with Prince Shoutoku (known in reality as the woman named Toyosatomimi no Miko) clashed with the Mononobe clan in a religious war between Buddhism (Soga) and Shintoism (Mononobe). The war, however, was a front; in reality, she, Miko, and Mononobe no Futo were followers of Taoism, and desired to pacify the nation under Buddhism to reduce the general populace's political power. This would pave the way for Miko and her consorts' rule when they would eventually revive as shikaisen -- hermits who had surpassed mortality utilizing Taoist techniques. The three of them chose the vessals they would preserve their spirits in; however, Mononobe swapped the jar Tojiko chose with an unfired one shortly before she underwent the shikaisen process, possibly as one final act of revenge for her role on the opposite side of the religious war. The jar decayed, leaving Tojiko without a vessal. However, since her association with Mononobe defied Buddhism, she was also cast off the cycle of reincarnation, thus leaving her a ghost. Oddly enough, once the initial outrage settled down, she actually found she preferred being a ghost to being a physical being, which is perhaps the reason why she doesn't hate Mononobe for what she did.
Since the jar decayed so quickly, it is fairly safe to assume that Tojiko was aware of her surroundings for a much, much longer time than either Futo or Miko. Since the mausoleum they were interred in were sealed by Buddhists, and since Buddhism's power did not in fact wane as had been predicted, Tojiko effectively remained sealed but aware in the mausoleum for centuries, as opposed to the other two, who remained dormant until the time of their resurrection. This gave her time for two things: one, it allowed the resentment she harbored towards the people who put her in that position and towards humanity to dampen down. Two, it provided opportunity to develop a permanent resentment and hatred for the religion she once followed, Buddhism. After all, it was the Buddhists' fault the three were in this situation, and her own worship hadn't provided a suitable backup when she had died for real.
She maintained the mausoleum while she waited for the day the other two could finally revive. The opportunity finally came centuries later, but not because Buddhism had died out; rather, it was because Prince Shoutoku herself faded into legend, and subsequently the mausoleum itself faded into the land of belief, Gensokyo. Furthermore, Byakuren Myouren, in an attempt to watch over the seal by placing her temple on the mausoleum, actually ended up breaking the seal herself, allowing Miko and Futo to revive, and causing an incident in which spirits that represented the manifestation of human desires flooded to the Mausoleum to greet Miko. Post-incident resolution (i.e. Reimu Hakurei kicked their butts), the three relocated to a dojo so that they would not live under a temple occupied by youkai.
(It's worth noting that despite her canon point being post Hopeless Masquerade, Tojiko herself had little involvement with those events, but she would certainly have heard of them from Miko and Futo both.)
Abilities: Tojiko is a ghost, which means both the capacity for flight and the ability to go non-corporeal at will. (The former isn't as unusual as you'd think considering she's from Gensokyo.) Like most Gensokyo residents, she fights primarily using danmaku, which is basically a massively scattershot projectile style. In particular, she utilizes the spellcard system, which basically covers all of the fighting without any of the lethality. This isn't to say she couldn't be lethal if she wanted to be, but generally speaking she keeps the kid gloves. Finally, as a bourei, she can generate powerful lightning, something which can cause interesting issues if she's really pissed off.
(As a tradeoff for being, well, dead, Tojiko CAN be dispersed, which would functionally work like death, so she's not absolutely immortal.)
First Person: [VIDEO]
All right, could somebody please explain something to me? Watches like these are supposed to be time telling devices, yes? Like... like... I don't know how it works, I just know you tell time with it. So why can I use it as some sort of communication device? How come I can see and hear everybody through it? And don't give me some crap about it being "magic." I'm ancient. I'm not DUMB. It's some sort of technology you humans have been coming up with over the years, I know. Have watches, ah, changed that much?
Third Person:
She floated closer to the large tower in the town, peering at the large circle with the numbers on it. She'd seen some of these in smaller forms, mostly by people who'd attempted to loot the mausoleum, or people who'd stumbled upon it by accident years later. This was the first time she'd seen one quite so LARGE, however. Did people really need a big thing like this if they had a bunch of smaller ones?
She shifted into the building, taking into account the gears and machinery working. She had to admit, the technology that humanity had developed in the 1400 years since she'd attempted -- and failed, thank you very much Mononobe -- to become a shikaisen was truly amazing. Even if she'd only gotten her information in bits and pieces, she'd developed part of her appreciation for being a ghost simply in being alert to see these changes. That they'd figure out how to make a device that functioned like this... humanity truly was amazing.
Gensokyo had some technology, of course, but it was halted. Things occasionally leaked in from the outside world, by her understanding, but there was something sad about knowing that there'd be no real technological development. It was a world of youkai, and even though she was now one herself, she thought it sad they were forced to sacrifice science for the sake of maintaining the status quo. At least that shop near the human village had extra information, extra devices. And all the humans and creatures around here could also tell her about how things had developed. Not a bad deal, on a whole. Temporarily, at least.
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