History:Sakamoto's wikia entry. Appearance:Sup. Personality: First impressions set a man's character in stone, and the one Sakamoto Tatsuma sets on any given day is of an astounding idiot. This doesn't seem to be a particularly difficult feat to manage, as right off the bat, one is almost certainly assured that this is just what this man is: a naturally empty-headed lackwit. Some room for doubt could be set aside, if one were feeling particularly generous enough, but that doubt would be swept aside before long. One is much better off not thinking about it, but seeing as how difficult it really is to ignore a man such as Sakamoto, one may as well buck up and deal with it.
To start, Sakamoto Tatsuma is an idiot, a point that's brought up often and consistently as can be. That's not to say he isn't of a good-nature. He's a very cheerful man to start, hardly ever found without a smile or something equally silly on his face and an ill-thought joke at hand. He's actually really easy-going, an amiable guy that most would have no trouble in getting along with were it not for his frequent displays of aforementioned stupidity, which earn him more than his fair share of fists and crippling blows to the more intimate parts of his anatomy. See, he's also the type to laugh a matter off, whether it be big or small or potentially life-threatening, tacking each incident and encounter up to luck, imagination, or as the result of a particularly nasty hangover. (Which, may it be noted, seem to be an all too frequent thing.) He was once hailed as optimistic, and perhaps a little too much so; there's a limit to such things, oi. It could be the drink, of which he partakes in frequently, and perhaps enjoys a little too much a little too often. One could call it a way of life for him, as it's never really clear when he's sober and when he's not, thus leaving one to simply assume that the alcohol has had little chance to file out of his system. He could just be high on life, for all anyone knows. (The more terrifying affliction, for which there are few cures.) He's even shirked work for the sake of making his rounds through Edo's bars, his defense being that it's all due to his love of 'Earth women'.
Yes, the women. Particularly one by loving and adoring name of 'Oryou-chan', with whom Sakamoto most certainly does not display mildly eerie, stalker-esque tendencies toward. Not at all. Nor does he slip away from his fleet just for the express purpose of frequenting the district in which this certain woman works, of course not. Those exclamations of love in the height of his stupors? Nonsense. Same with his frequent propositions of marriage during said stupors, and the resulting crotch-centered pains that follow soon after. Not that he would remember much of it, given his seeming track record. He forgets names quite frequently, and it's with an almost purposeful persistence that he continues to refer to his old comrade as 'Kintoki', as opposed to the proper 'Gintoki'. It doesn't seem to be his only quirk, nor his last. Those who work around him and for him seem to have a fairly good idea of what he's capable of getting himself into, and show little to no surprise at his various supposed hijinks. Nor is there much surprise expressed over his frequent escapes into the wild unknown of Edo's Kabuki-cho district, much to the chagrin (and general annoyance) of his second-in-command and assistant, Mutsu.
It's about now that one would wonder why, where, and how such a wastrel came about such a thing as a second-in-command. Surprises never cease, but it isn't too out if the ordinary. Pilot, captain, and head of the intergalactic commerce fleet, the Kaientai, Sakamoto is more of a shrewd businessman than anyone could ever hope to have guessed. He keeps his fleets running smooth, his business high and his employees and followers well enough in check. As a pilot, there are few as adept as he or as enthused; his love for ships is infamous, remarked upon by acquaintances and old comrades alike.
"For Sakamoto Tatsuma, moving a ship is as natural as moving his own body."
No truer word said, and one couldn't expect anything less from the man who left his own planet behind for his dream. Of course, there is a side to every thing, and even something as illustrious as a space business fleet captain is no exception. Devoted as Sakamoto may be to his ships and the grandeur of space travel, it doesn't save him from the near-crippling grip of motion sickness. As one former comrade once said: "His head is empty, but there is no one who loves ships more than he does."
Through all this, Sakamoto may seem the height of laughable incompetence, but this assumption couldn't be further from the truth. There stands good reasoning for why those in his company remain steadfast and loyal, even in the face of all his little eccentricities. Despite his [frequent] displays of frivolous idiocy and incompetency, Sakamoto is a clever man. He built the Kaientai from the ground up in a relatively short span of time, and not only did he manage to get his trade off the ground, he kept it running, and he's kept it successful since, even across the cosmos. He's an organizer, a coordinator, and above all, a leader. Before him he places everyone and everything else, willing to risk his own life if it means saving another in the process, something taught and drilled into his very own employees and followers: "Don't lose sight of the greater cause."
Beneath and behind the ridiculous antics and foolishness is a man who, since his youth, works toward that ideology: the greater good. He was, and still is, the revolutionary of the Joui four, the visionary of the group and of the Kaientai. See, the thing about Sakamoto is that, not only does he look ahead of a situation, he's always doing so, even if it doesn't always seem like he is. Since the beginning, he's dreamed of the future, his possibilities, and, above all, the best path to take through them all. He makes the decisions of greatest benefit and return profit, the ones that make the most difference in that future, no matter how close or far off it is. Sakamoto is the one who looks ahead, far beyond everyone else, and he's the one, of them all, who looks to and sees the bigger picture. No matter how difficult the path may seem. He's given up a vast amount for it.
In the past, in the wars against the Amanto, the Joui wars, Sakamoto Tatsuma was a partisan, and one of those few men to be feared. Reputed to be one of the greatest swordsmen on the warfront, even alongside vaunted names like Shiranui, Sakamoto was once dubbed 'monster', one of those unstoppable forces that claimed his fair share of Amanto lives in his time. Had he perhaps been a different man, he may not have left when he did and how he did. Breaking his ties with the Joui, abandoning the war and his companions, he left the battlefield to flee to space. It's why he was able to do the things he did. It was for his cause, because in the midst of it all, he saw that something beyond the fighting and the warfare. He saw a way through, a way to help his country, not in the short-term, but in the long run.
"I've decided! I'm going to go to space! Just wandering around on Earth and fighting the Amanto, I can't see anything ahead. As we're doing this, more and more Amanto are coming to Earth... I just can't go against the wave of ever-changing time. All I've done this war is sit by and watch my friends die. I don't want to watch my friends die anymore. From now on, I need to start looking at life from a higher point.I need a place where I can see people, Amanto, even the stars. So I'm going to space. I'll go to space and be a pilot in a really big ship. I'll start up a fishing business where I can even catch the stars!"
So, turning his back on the Joui wars and their uprisings, Sakamoto turned to business, looking to the ties of commerce and profit to draw the conflicting societies of humanity and Amanto together.
"It's not war or ideology that moves people. It's profit. I plan to bring that to humanity and to the Amanto alike, and bring them closer together. I think I am protecting the country in my own way."
Commerce is his way, mutual profit and benefit, and as such, a dream for which he's sacrificed much. The acquisition and maintaining of a neutral stance is essential; striking deals with varying factions, some on opposing ends of the spectrum of each other, can be tricky business at best and downright dangerous at worse. He's had to keep a balance, maintain peace between all these while still keeping his business up and afloat. Mediator, peacekeeper, businessman, and each role carried out with the detachment required for his place. Another such necessity, keeping his attachments to an absolute minimum, not only for his own sake but for that of his company and it's employees. For his position, he's not a man who can afford liabilities.
Disarming idiot by night, major business company head by day, that is Sakamoto Tatsuma.
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Tatsuma Sakamoto | Gintama | RESERVED ii
Appearance: Sup.
Personality:
First impressions set a man's character in stone, and the one Sakamoto Tatsuma sets on any given day is of an astounding idiot. This doesn't seem to be a particularly difficult feat to manage, as right off the bat, one is almost certainly assured that this is just what this man is: a naturally empty-headed lackwit. Some room for doubt could be set aside, if one were feeling particularly generous enough, but that doubt would be swept aside before long. One is much better off not thinking about it, but seeing as how difficult it really is to ignore a man such as Sakamoto, one may as well buck up and deal with it.
To start, Sakamoto Tatsuma is an idiot, a point that's brought up often and consistently as can be. That's not to say he isn't of a good-nature. He's a very cheerful man to start, hardly ever found without a smile or something equally silly on his face and an ill-thought joke at hand. He's actually really easy-going, an amiable guy that most would have no trouble in getting along with were it not for his frequent displays of aforementioned stupidity, which earn him more than his fair share of fists and crippling blows to the more intimate parts of his anatomy. See, he's also the type to laugh a matter off, whether it be big or small or potentially life-threatening, tacking each incident and encounter up to luck, imagination, or as the result of a particularly nasty hangover. (Which, may it be noted, seem to be an all too frequent thing.) He was once hailed as optimistic, and perhaps a little too much so; there's a limit to such things, oi. It could be the drink, of which he partakes in frequently, and perhaps enjoys a little too much a little too often. One could call it a way of life for him, as it's never really clear when he's sober and when he's not, thus leaving one to simply assume that the alcohol has had little chance to file out of his system. He could just be high on life, for all anyone knows. (The more terrifying affliction, for which there are few cures.) He's even shirked work for the sake of making his rounds through Edo's bars, his defense being that it's all due to his love of 'Earth women'.
Yes, the women. Particularly one by loving and adoring name of 'Oryou-chan', with whom Sakamoto most certainly does not display mildly eerie, stalker-esque tendencies toward. Not at all. Nor does he slip away from his fleet just for the express purpose of frequenting the district in which this certain woman works, of course not. Those exclamations of love in the height of his stupors? Nonsense. Same with his frequent propositions of marriage during said stupors, and the resulting crotch-centered pains that follow soon after. Not that he would remember much of it, given his seeming track record. He forgets names quite frequently, and it's with an almost purposeful persistence that he continues to refer to his old comrade as 'Kintoki', as opposed to the proper 'Gintoki'. It doesn't seem to be his only quirk, nor his last. Those who work around him and for him seem to have a fairly good idea of what he's capable of getting himself into, and show little to no surprise at his various supposed hijinks. Nor is there much surprise expressed over his frequent escapes into the wild unknown of Edo's Kabuki-cho district, much to the chagrin (and general annoyance) of his second-in-command and assistant, Mutsu.
It's about now that one would wonder why, where, and how such a wastrel came about such a thing as a second-in-command. Surprises never cease, but it isn't too out if the ordinary. Pilot, captain, and head of the intergalactic commerce fleet, the Kaientai, Sakamoto is more of a shrewd businessman than anyone could ever hope to have guessed. He keeps his fleets running smooth, his business high and his employees and followers well enough in check. As a pilot, there are few as adept as he or as enthused; his love for ships is infamous, remarked upon by acquaintances and old comrades alike.
No truer word said, and one couldn't expect anything less from the man who left his own planet behind for his dream. Of course, there is a side to every thing, and even something as illustrious as a space business fleet captain is no exception. Devoted as Sakamoto may be to his ships and the grandeur of space travel, it doesn't save him from the near-crippling grip of motion sickness. As one former comrade once said: "His head is empty, but there is no one who loves ships more than he does."
Through all this, Sakamoto may seem the height of laughable incompetence, but this assumption couldn't be further from the truth. There stands good reasoning for why those in his company remain steadfast and loyal, even in the face of all his little eccentricities. Despite his [frequent] displays of frivolous idiocy and incompetency, Sakamoto is a clever man. He built the Kaientai from the ground up in a relatively short span of time, and not only did he manage to get his trade off the ground, he kept it running, and he's kept it successful since, even across the cosmos. He's an organizer, a coordinator, and above all, a leader. Before him he places everyone and everything else, willing to risk his own life if it means saving another in the process, something taught and drilled into his very own employees and followers: "Don't lose sight of the greater cause."
Beneath and behind the ridiculous antics and foolishness is a man who, since his youth, works toward that ideology: the greater good. He was, and still is, the revolutionary of the Joui four, the visionary of the group and of the Kaientai. See, the thing about Sakamoto is that, not only does he look ahead of a situation, he's always doing so, even if it doesn't always seem like he is. Since the beginning, he's dreamed of the future, his possibilities, and, above all, the best path to take through them all. He makes the decisions of greatest benefit and return profit, the ones that make the most difference in that future, no matter how close or far off it is. Sakamoto is the one who looks ahead, far beyond everyone else, and he's the one, of them all, who looks to and sees the bigger picture. No matter how difficult the path may seem. He's given up a vast amount for it.
In the past, in the wars against the Amanto, the Joui wars, Sakamoto Tatsuma was a partisan, and one of those few men to be feared. Reputed to be one of the greatest swordsmen on the warfront, even alongside vaunted names like Shiranui, Sakamoto was once dubbed 'monster', one of those unstoppable forces that claimed his fair share of Amanto lives in his time. Had he perhaps been a different man, he may not have left when he did and how he did. Breaking his ties with the Joui, abandoning the war and his companions, he left the battlefield to flee to space. It's why he was able to do the things he did. It was for his cause, because in the midst of it all, he saw that something beyond the fighting and the warfare. He saw a way through, a way to help his country, not in the short-term, but in the long run.
Just wandering around on Earth and fighting the Amanto, I can't see anything ahead. As we're doing this, more and more Amanto are coming to Earth... I just can't go against the wave of ever-changing time. All I've done this war is sit by and watch my friends die. I don't want to watch my friends die anymore. From now on, I need to start looking at life from a higher point.I need a place where I can see people, Amanto, even the stars.
So I'm going to space. I'll go to space and be a pilot in a really big ship. I'll start up a fishing business where I can even catch the stars!"
So, turning his back on the Joui wars and their uprisings, Sakamoto turned to business, looking to the ties of commerce and profit to draw the conflicting societies of humanity and Amanto together.
Commerce is his way, mutual profit and benefit, and as such, a dream for which he's sacrificed much. The acquisition and maintaining of a neutral stance is essential; striking deals with varying factions, some on opposing ends of the spectrum of each other, can be tricky business at best and downright dangerous at worse. He's had to keep a balance, maintain peace between all these while still keeping his business up and afloat. Mediator, peacekeeper, businessman, and each role carried out with the detachment required for his place. Another such necessity, keeping his attachments to an absolute minimum, not only for his own sake but for that of his company and it's employees. For his position, he's not a man who can afford liabilities.
Disarming idiot by night, major business company head by day, that is Sakamoto Tatsuma.