PERSONA: GENJI
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI PERSONA IS OWNED BY ATLUS. THE CHARACTERS IN THE UPCOMING SERIES BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTED CREATORS.
~SUMMARY~
1185:During the Five year war known as The Genpei Wars between the two rival samurai clans, Yoritomo-no-Minamoto third son of Yoshitomo and head of the Minamoto clan becomes afflicted with a mysterious illness. His brother the young and aspiring general of the Minamoto Yoshitsune rushes to his brothers side. Yoritomo tells his little brother of a Priestess who is believed to be able to cure any ailment, and must travel to the Sacred village of Onzu. And so begins Yoshitsune's tale, accompanied by his friends and loyal retainers Benkei, and Tomoe Gozen they set out across the country, meeting new allies, as well as adversaries. But when our heroes meet a Strange Fortune-teller they discover they find themselves in a whole other conflict, beyond the mortal realm.
What is this mysterious power known as Persona?
What challenges will they face?
Who will our three early legends meet in this tale of Genji?
Those questions will be your's to answer...
~Author's note~
It's a brand new persona series on top of my current OC story Heart of Inspiration, which you can still check out and receive relatively regular updates to. Based very very loosely on the Tale of Genji in the late Heian period. But this time I'm going to need your help! Yes YOU! Mark! Want to Submit an OC for the upcoming story PERSONA GENJI! ? Well just fill out the Character Card below then send it as either a review or a personal message, and be as descriptive and creative as you like! (It really helps me out!)
I'm going to need say 5 additional OCs for the main heroes, 2 male and 3 female, or animals, or demons, surprise me! I'll also welcome villains(Kiyomori-no-Taira is taken) and side characters if able! See some examples of the three main heroes underneath the character sheet.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Height and Weight:(Optional or just put under appearance.)
Appearance and clothing:
Background/ Personality:
How they meet the Heroes: (optional)
Weapon: (Be creative and use whatever you like! But keep it (Kinda) in the time period IE no guns :P)
Persona :(just the first form, If I want an ultimate ill send a personal message.)
And now for the Main characters
Name: Yoshitsune-no-Minamoto
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Height and Weight: 5'7" about 160 pounds
Appearance and Clothing: He has a young face with clear blue eyes, and a X cross scar on his cheek. He has straight black hair which he keeps in a ponytail on the top of his head, and a short bang over one of his eyes. His clothing consists of two slightly separate outfits, A more casual wear, blueish teal samurai clothing with a single sleeve and a shoulder guard for protection that has the Minamoto clan Mon (that's the clan emblem) on it, with some wooden sandals. His other outfit is his full set of samurai armour, coloured purple with white. His armour again only covers one arm with a shoulder guard, while the other is bare for his main sword hand.
Background/ Personality: Born during a war that killed his Father and two eldest brothers he was spared by a temple of warrior monks who raised and trained him. Then in 1180 he had heard his third brother Yoritomo the new leader of the clan was in need of raising an army to defeat the villain Kiyomori-no-Taira. After meeting his long lost brothers he had begun his ascendance to legend, as a famous swordsman and leader. He is an ambitious and righteous soul, who is sworn to protect the innocent and fight in the name of his clan.
Weapon: Dual Swords
Persona: Susano-o God of Storms
Name: Benkei
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Height and Weight: 7'2 Over 300 pounds
Appearance and Clothing: Dark skinned, and covered in muscle. His huge size makes him very frightening to most people, yet he always behaves calmly even when people through rotten food at him for looking like a monster. He has a large tattoo covering his entire back of himself slaying a dragon. Now he covers the tattoo with a vest of armour showing how he has become more humble with himself. Benkei's clothing remains the same in and out of battle, for his attitude changes little between these, A pair of white shorts covering about halfway down his shins, a large red rope for a belt (Being that he is so large there is hardly a better substitute) and his vest of Armour that leaves his arms neck and stomach exposed.
Background/ Personality: Benkei lived as a Brigand who robbed, and fought as freely as he pleased. He gained a reputation as a monster in battle who defeated 999 swordsmen and took their weapons as trophies. One day he and Yoshitsune crossed paths and fought. When defeated he asked why he did not kill him, and from then on swore his life to Yoshitsune to fight and die for him. Benkei was once a vain and boastful sort who would always show his opponents his back tattoo of him slaying a dragon. Since his defeat and service to his lord however he has become a different and redeemed person, who is extremely loyal and humble to his master. He now cares little for what people think of his appearance, and only fights in self defence. Benkei always acts as the rational mind of caution towards his young master's bold and reckless behaviour.
Weapon: His fists / whatever/whoever he can get his hands on.
Persona: Tsukuyomi, the Moon god
Name: Tomoe Gozen
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Height and Weight: 5'4 120 pounds (She'll say lower :P)
Appearance and Clothing: She has lovely white skin, and dark eyes. Tomoe wears thick clothing that accents her shoulders to look more masculine, and wears high sandals to look taller. She even cuts her hair, a lovely shade of darkish blue short like a tomboy. Her armour is coloured a bright golden yellow. She hides her appearance of a woman so that she can be taken seriously as a warrior.
Background/Personality: Tomoe serves under the Lord Minamoto-no-Yoshitaka. During an inter-clan conflict Yoshitaka and Yoritomo wage war on each other. When the battle was lost her lord told her to retreat even though she wished to die with her lord, but he said that it would be dishonourable if he had died alongside a woman. She hides her beautiful face with a helmet the first time Yoshitsune meets her as she tries to flee the Battle of Awazu. He mistakes the Samurai as male and the two have a fight until he sees her face and halts saying he can not in good conscious fight a woman. Tomoe is angered that she cannot be taken seriously as a woman samurai. Tomoe and Yoshitsune meet again and Tomoe seeks revenge for not having fought her before, Yoshitsune reluctantly battles her without removing the sheath from his swords. Tomoe's anger burns as she sees again he will not be taken seriously. But Yoshitsune explains that he simply never saw her as an enemy and had no reason to attack her. The fight concludes as a draw and the two become friends.
Weapon: Naginata (Japanese pole blade)
Persona : Amaterasu the goddess of the sun
~Author's note continued.~
I look forward to your characters as well as the response to the upcoming series I plan to release the first chapter around the month of March to make sure everyone gets their submissions in before it's closed and announce those 5 lucky winners! (Plus the people who might submit minor characters or Villains) Only 2 characters max per person to be fair. Thank you all and stay tuned for updates :3
