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IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Gen 'Musashi' Takekura Age: 19 Canon:Eyeshield 21 Canon Point: Chapter 333 Species: Human Gender: Male Orientation:Football Not explicitly stated in canon; for housing purposes, Musashi's pragmatic enough to not really care whether he ends up rooming with a dude or a lady. It's not as if they're really married, after all.
History: @wikia! Appearance: Despite his youth, Musashi looks at least 10 years older than his actual age. Seriously, look at this old man. Personality: Maybe the easiest way to describe Musashi is as Team Dad, but that's also where it gets complicated. What kind of dad is he? Certainly not the honey-I'm-home, hey-kids-dad-got-you-something-cool! sort of figure. He's very much his own father's son: blunt, hard-nosed, and stoic. He's also supportive, pragmatic, and self-sacrificing to a fault.
To begin with, his position as kicker, while crucial, is a support role more than anything; when the rest of the team has busted their asses getting over the line, it's Musashi's turn to step in and give them that little boost. He doesn't have to be around all the time to make a difference, he just turns up when they need him the most. This is mirrored by his return to high school football: with the Devilbats down too many points to get by on touchdowns alone, along comes Musashi to help turn the tide, breaking his year-and-a-half hiatus from the game.
The sacrificial support pillar is also a role he takes on off the field. In fact, it's the reason he spent so long away from his friends and their beloved game, dropping out of high school to take over foremanship of his family's construction company after his father collapsed and had to be hospitalised long-term. But Musashi's a pretty tender-hearted guy; any time he sacrifices himself, he'll try and make himself into the bad guy first so nobody worries about the pain it causes him. For his parents, when he quit school, he deliberately turned delinquent to get kicked out so they would 'give up on him', smoking in the school hallway: he didn't want them to worry about him missing his youth or friends. When the Devilbats' quarterback, Hiruma, got literally broken on the field of play, Musashi was ready to take the role himself and scathingly told the other volunteers that they weren't physically strong enough for the role: he didn't want anybody else to get hurt. As Yukimitsu points out, "He may provoke them and become the bad guy, but the truth is he wants to take the most dangerous role for himself. Hiruma-kun, Kurita-kun, and Musashi-kun: the three of them started the American Football club. that's why Musashi-kun probably thinks it's his responsibility."
However, this isn't to say that Musashi wants to take command; he'll only do so if he's the best-qualified option available (i.e. taking over Takekura Construction). As part of the Devilbats he's always deferred to Hiruma's leadership, despite disagreeing with him vocally on several occasions. Most notably is when he goes so far as to punch the quarterback in the mouth when Hiruma insists on keeping their running back in the game despite incredible fatigue and high risk of severe, permanent injury. While the punch was revealed to be another of Hiruma's crafty ploys, Musashi's aversion to others being injured is reiterated several times. The two don't always reconcile - perhaps mirroring his own internal war of wanting to play and needing to work - so inevitably he defaults to following the lead of whoever he considers to be in charge. Most of the time, that's Hiruma. Sometimes, like when he's being told to stop letting his teammates down, it's his father. Once it's even Sena, who takes Hiruma's place as quarterback when their captain's off injured.
Indeed, that very situation presents in a nutshell when replacement-QB Sena suggests a gameplan with himself taking a ridiculous risk: Musashi comments: "I will never approve of a play for which you might get badly injured, no matter what. But you know...right now Deimon's control tower is you, Sena." He's smart enough to know that the times he most wants to pick apart the holes in some wacko plan for victory are exactly the times when he needs to follow the leader, because if they had less desperate options, they'd be using them. He just wants it to be clear that he cares for their well-being, in his own rough-edged way.
Really, he's a sensitive kind of guy, always looking out for others. Even before he rejoins the Devilbats, he's seen giving sensible advice to Sena and Monta about not slacking in their training; while he can be laconic, Musashi's not backwards about coming forwards when he has something that needs saying. He can be pretty perceptive about the abilities and mental states of his teammates, at one point delivering a fairly harsh-worded reality check to the self-deluded idiot of their team, Taki, which ends with said idiot realising his limits-- and therefore his true usefulness. Musashi even corrects Hiruma's usually-accurate assessment on one occasion, in regards to Kurita. It seems he has a natural empathy to go along with those metaphorically broad shoulders.
Musashi is, thankfully, also equipped with a rock-steady personality and the ability to calmly deal with all kinds of crap with relative ease. 'Thankfully', because for seven years now he's held company with a guy arguably crazy than any three Batman villains combined. Even moreso than Kurita, who's spent more time with Hiruma than anybody else, Musashi takes the demonic quarterback's antics in stride. At one point he even compares Hiruma's constant messing-around with guns to spinning a pencil while thinking, seemingly a little surprised that everyone else is overreacting to such a simple thing. In this way he's the perfect foil to Hiruma's overly grandiose and trigger-happy persona. His composure and focus is very difficult to shake; even when he's being charged down by one of the best players in the high school league, it doesn't affect his concentration on the task at hand.
He has a very strong loyalty to his friends and family, and his team falls under that umbrella. The responsibility this loyalty breeds can be heavy, such as his decision to quit school at 15 and work full-time in his father's stead: Musashi points out that he couldn't let the company fail because of how many mouths (their workers) they had to feed. Once he's taken on a task or responsibility, he'll complete it. Despite returning to school and football in time to fulfil his promise with Hiruma and Kurita that they'd go to the Christmas Bowl together, he doesn't go on to college or a professional football career; the promise was kept, and his other duty to the family job took back its precedence slot. In reality, Musashi was lucky he was given the chance to fulfil both.
He does go on to form his own semi-pro team (along with a few other comrades and opponents from his Deimon days) and play recreationally. For something he got into because "Hanging out with you guys [Kurita and Hiruma] seems fun" - for something he tried once to tear his mind from completely - it's clear that football's something he'll always love even if he can't make it his life.
Abilites: • Is the foreman of his father's building company, Takekura Construction, and a more-than-capable chippy carpenter; • Should really have a degree in putting up with Hiruma's crap, let's be honest; • He can kick a football 60 yards and build a working casino in like 5 minutes flat, what more do you want of him Other: • Generally goes by the name 'Musashi', which is basically Hiruma's fault. Like everything always is. • Seriously. Built a casino in like 5 minutes. I'm never going to get over this. STATS! •Position: Placekicker/Linebacker •Jersey: 11 •40 yard dash: 5.6 seconds •Bench Press: 100 kg (220 lbs) •Height: 5' 9" •Weight: 77 kg (169 lb) •Blood Type: A •Birthdate: April 2nd
SAMPLES First Person: [ It's been a few hours since Musashi found himself in his new, unwanted home, and he's already making great progress 'fixing' his assigned house. But the sun's setting and that reminds him that he's got other things to attend to, here.
Fishing out his cellphone from where he'd been temporarily using it to prop up a level, Musashi runs through the various settings available to him. Pursing his lips, he settles for plain old text; it's fitting for a plain old man, after all. He addresses the network at large: ]
where's the best place for take-out around here?
[ ...All right, maybe it's not the most exciting ice-breaker in the world, but he's hungry and not minded to cook himself anything. Hands that can construct impromptu casinos aren't necessarily suited to also constructing pizza or ramen, after all.
A few minutes later, another thought occurs; this time the text is sent privately. Part of him wishes he could see the reaction of a certain Mr H. upon its receipt. The rest of him is pretty sure he know's Hiruma's face well enough by now not to need to watch. Again, the message is terse, but telling: ] got enough for 2 teams yet?
[ Maybe he can count this as an indulgent vacation, or something like that. There's no point worrying about the old man and everyone else back home until he has more information at hand. Until then, he won't object to having some fun here and there. ]
Third Person: "...Huh."
Absently wiggling a finger in his ear as if the act would help him make sense of this, Musashi surveyed the house before him. Professional eyes took in every small detail, judging and weighing it all and seeing if it lived up to his own standards. Not bad, he decided. Of course, he could have done it better. Of course.
That was neither here nor there, though. His biggest problem wasn't the 2-millimetre gap between window frame and glazing; it was where the hell was he. Had somebody kidnapped him? Surely they wouldn't give him a house (even one that needed the front step levelling, just ever so slightly) and a car (which wasn't gonna be all that useful for carrying timber around, but he could fix that) if they were kidnapping. That didn't make sense.
Musashi shook his head. Honestly, he was trying to figure out if this was the weirdest thing to every have happened to him. After spending so long with a certain devil in disguise, his life had certainly had its interesting moments. This was eerily peaceful in comparison, if inconvenient. Besides, usually when things were Hiruma's fault, there was more cackling and things exploding. It was like the guy's psycho calling card.
He flipped through the phone, though, and wasn't all that surprised to find Hiruma was in there. Maybe Theory A: Blame The Devil was right on the money. At any rate, it was one familiar thing in a place that looked like an American TV series more than anything else. Musashi would pay the cackling quarterback a housecall and see if he had any useful answers.
Right after he fixed this place up a bit. Starting with the cornice. No; actually...
The pink flamingos on his front lawn made very satisfying pak! sounds as he punted them hard, right into the pool across the road. There. Now he'd fix the cornice.
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GEN 'musashi' TAKEKURA | EYESHIELD 21 | NOT RESERVED
Player: Erika
Age: 26 lol
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Contact Info: AIM: withdrawscoolly; Plurk: vagrancing
Other Characters: NYET
IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Gen 'Musashi' Takekura
Age: 19
Canon: Eyeshield 21
Canon Point: Chapter 333
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Orientation:
FootballNot explicitly stated in canon; for housing purposes, Musashi's pragmatic enough to not really care whether he ends up rooming with a dude or a lady. It's not as if they're really married, after all.History: @wikia!
Appearance: Despite his youth, Musashi looks at least 10 years older than his actual age. Seriously, look at this old man.
Personality: Maybe the easiest way to describe Musashi is as Team Dad, but that's also where it gets complicated. What kind of dad is he? Certainly not the honey-I'm-home, hey-kids-dad-got-you-something-cool! sort of figure. He's very much his own father's son: blunt, hard-nosed, and stoic. He's also supportive, pragmatic, and self-sacrificing to a fault.
To begin with, his position as kicker, while crucial, is a support role more than anything; when the rest of the team has busted their asses getting over the line, it's Musashi's turn to step in and give them that little boost. He doesn't have to be around all the time to make a difference, he just turns up when they need him the most. This is mirrored by his return to high school football: with the Devilbats down too many points to get by on touchdowns alone, along comes Musashi to help turn the tide, breaking his year-and-a-half hiatus from the game.
The sacrificial support pillar is also a role he takes on off the field. In fact, it's the reason he spent so long away from his friends and their beloved game, dropping out of high school to take over foremanship of his family's construction company after his father collapsed and had to be hospitalised long-term. But Musashi's a pretty tender-hearted guy; any time he sacrifices himself, he'll try and make himself into the bad guy first so nobody worries about the pain it causes him. For his parents, when he quit school, he deliberately turned delinquent to get kicked out so they would 'give up on him', smoking in the school hallway: he didn't want them to worry about him missing his youth or friends. When the Devilbats' quarterback, Hiruma, got literally broken on the field of play, Musashi was ready to take the role himself and scathingly told the other volunteers that they weren't physically strong enough for the role: he didn't want anybody else to get hurt. As Yukimitsu points out, "He may provoke them and become the bad guy, but the truth is he wants to take the most dangerous role for himself. Hiruma-kun, Kurita-kun, and Musashi-kun: the three of them started the American Football club. that's why Musashi-kun probably thinks it's his responsibility."
However, this isn't to say that Musashi wants to take command; he'll only do so if he's the best-qualified option available (i.e. taking over Takekura Construction). As part of the Devilbats he's always deferred to Hiruma's leadership, despite disagreeing with him vocally on several occasions. Most notably is when he goes so far as to punch the quarterback in the mouth when Hiruma insists on keeping their running back in the game despite incredible fatigue and high risk of severe, permanent injury. While the punch was revealed to be another of Hiruma's crafty ploys, Musashi's aversion to others being injured is reiterated several times. The two don't always reconcile - perhaps mirroring his own internal war of wanting to play and needing to work - so inevitably he defaults to following the lead of whoever he considers to be in charge. Most of the time, that's Hiruma. Sometimes, like when he's being told to stop letting his teammates down, it's his father. Once it's even Sena, who takes Hiruma's place as quarterback when their captain's off injured.
Indeed, that very situation presents in a nutshell when replacement-QB Sena suggests a gameplan with himself taking a ridiculous risk: Musashi comments: "I will never approve of a play for which you might get badly injured, no matter what. But you know...right now Deimon's control tower is you, Sena." He's smart enough to know that the times he most wants to pick apart the holes in some wacko plan for victory are exactly the times when he needs to follow the leader, because if they had less desperate options, they'd be using them. He just wants it to be clear that he cares for their well-being, in his own rough-edged way.
Really, he's a sensitive kind of guy, always looking out for others. Even before he rejoins the Devilbats, he's seen giving sensible advice to Sena and Monta about not slacking in their training; while he can be laconic, Musashi's not backwards about coming forwards when he has something that needs saying. He can be pretty perceptive about the abilities and mental states of his teammates, at one point delivering a fairly harsh-worded reality check to the self-deluded idiot of their team, Taki, which ends with said idiot realising his limits-- and therefore his true usefulness. Musashi even corrects Hiruma's usually-accurate assessment on one occasion, in regards to Kurita. It seems he has a natural empathy to go along with those metaphorically broad shoulders.
Musashi is, thankfully, also equipped with a rock-steady personality and the ability to calmly deal with all kinds of crap with relative ease. 'Thankfully', because for seven years now he's held company with a guy arguably crazy than any three Batman villains combined. Even moreso than Kurita, who's spent more time with Hiruma than anybody else, Musashi takes the demonic quarterback's antics in stride. At one point he even compares Hiruma's constant messing-around with guns to spinning a pencil while thinking, seemingly a little surprised that everyone else is overreacting to such a simple thing. In this way he's the perfect foil to Hiruma's overly grandiose and trigger-happy persona. His composure and focus is very difficult to shake; even when he's being charged down by one of the best players in the high school league, it doesn't affect his concentration on the task at hand.
He has a very strong loyalty to his friends and family, and his team falls under that umbrella. The responsibility this loyalty breeds can be heavy, such as his decision to quit school at 15 and work full-time in his father's stead: Musashi points out that he couldn't let the company fail because of how many mouths (their workers) they had to feed. Once he's taken on a task or responsibility, he'll complete it. Despite returning to school and football in time to fulfil his promise with Hiruma and Kurita that they'd go to the Christmas Bowl together, he doesn't go on to college or a professional football career; the promise was kept, and his other duty to the family job took back its precedence slot. In reality, Musashi was lucky he was given the chance to fulfil both.
He does go on to form his own semi-pro team (along with a few other comrades and opponents from his Deimon days) and play recreationally. For something he got into because "Hanging out with you guys [Kurita and Hiruma] seems fun" - for something he tried once to tear his mind from completely - it's clear that football's something he'll always love even if he can't make it his life.
Abilites: • Is the foreman of his father's building company, Takekura Construction, and a more-than-capable
chippycarpenter;• Should really have a degree in putting up with Hiruma's crap, let's be honest;
• He can kick a football 60 yards and build a working casino in like 5 minutes flat, what more do you want of him
Other: • Generally goes by the name 'Musashi', which is basically Hiruma's fault. Like everything always is.
• Seriously. Built a casino in like 5 minutes. I'm never going to get over this.
STATS!
•Position: Placekicker/Linebacker
•Jersey: 11
•40 yard dash: 5.6 seconds
•Bench Press: 100 kg (220 lbs)
•Height: 5' 9"
•Weight: 77 kg (169 lb)
•Blood Type: A
•Birthdate: April 2nd
SAMPLES
First Person: [ It's been a few hours since Musashi found himself in his new, unwanted home, and he's already making great progress 'fixing' his assigned house. But the sun's setting and that reminds him that he's got other things to attend to, here.
Fishing out his cellphone from where he'd been temporarily using it to prop up a level, Musashi runs through the various settings available to him. Pursing his lips, he settles for plain old text; it's fitting for a plain old man, after all. He addresses the network at large: ]
where's the best place for take-out around here?
[ ...All right, maybe it's not the most exciting ice-breaker in the world, but he's hungry and not minded to cook himself anything. Hands that can construct impromptu casinos aren't necessarily suited to also constructing pizza or ramen, after all.
A few minutes later, another thought occurs; this time the text is sent privately. Part of him wishes he could see the reaction of a certain Mr H. upon its receipt. The rest of him is pretty sure he know's Hiruma's face well enough by now not to need to watch. Again, the message is terse, but telling: ] got enough for 2 teams yet?
[ Maybe he can count this as an indulgent vacation, or something like that. There's no point worrying about the old man and everyone else back home until he has more information at hand. Until then, he won't object to having some fun here and there. ]
Third Person: "...Huh."
Absently wiggling a finger in his ear as if the act would help him make sense of this, Musashi surveyed the house before him. Professional eyes took in every small detail, judging and weighing it all and seeing if it lived up to his own standards. Not bad, he decided. Of course, he could have done it better. Of course.
That was neither here nor there, though. His biggest problem wasn't the 2-millimetre gap between window frame and glazing; it was where the hell was he. Had somebody kidnapped him? Surely they wouldn't give him a house (even one that needed the front step levelling, just ever so slightly) and a car (which wasn't gonna be all that useful for carrying timber around, but he could fix that) if they were kidnapping. That didn't make sense.
Musashi shook his head. Honestly, he was trying to figure out if this was the weirdest thing to every have happened to him. After spending so long with a certain devil in disguise, his life had certainly had its interesting moments. This was eerily peaceful in comparison, if inconvenient. Besides, usually when things were Hiruma's fault, there was more cackling and things exploding. It was like the guy's psycho calling card.
He flipped through the phone, though, and wasn't all that surprised to find Hiruma was in there. Maybe Theory A: Blame The Devil was right on the money. At any rate, it was one familiar thing in a place that looked like an American TV series more than anything else. Musashi would pay the cackling quarterback a housecall and see if he had any useful answers.
Right after he fixed this place up a bit. Starting with the cornice. No; actually...
The pink flamingos on his front lawn made very satisfying pak! sounds as he punted them hard, right into the pool across the road. There. Now he'd fix the cornice.
OTHER
Housing Request?: Anywhere's fine!
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: How many people say no...but I did read them. I promise.
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: I don't see why not?
Accepted
Congrats, your application has been accepted! Your character is now living at 1404 in Holly Heights, with a spouse slot. In order to get the ball rolling, here's what you need to do:
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