PLAYER

NAME: Rizu
CONTACT: stormcoming, #waxwinging, PM
ABOUT YOU: I'm a tourism/culture writer in Kyoto, Japan, with two cats, a love of exploring shrines and temples, and a hatred of ministry deadlines. On plurk, it’s mostly posting pretty Japan pics, crying about roleplay, obsessing over my unknown canons, and sighing about gacha games.

CHARACTER

NAME: Hayame
CANON: JINBA
FACTION | ASPECT: Meridian (T3), Iconoclast

GIVE US A BLURB ABOUT THEM!: Hayame is a centaur born and raised in slavery in a version of medieval Japan that added horse people but didn’t subtract sexism. Denial, Duty, and Desperation are her best friends. She spent her entire life trying to prove herself as a warrior and selling out her own race to prevent [gross redacted CWs] happening to her, only to end up a POW in a village of orphans and hot DILFs who taught her about freedom and love… before she fucked it up because her life is a series of tragic, ironic mistakes that ruin everything. Now she has to commit honor suicide to save them, except she can’t since she’s here and people keep trying to convince her to survive and Be Better??? It’s fucked up and she’s smad about it... but also tsundere-ly happy about it, you know... having people who actually value her and being able to be a free woman.

GENERAL PLANS: My plan for Hayame's arc is a general upward curve (with some potential lurches along the way). In her own canon, she dies in an explosive double suicide to cleanse her honor without every getting to experience a real life outside slavery or make proper bonds with others, so Kenos is For That. Even though it may be subtle at times, she has changed a lot over the last year+, and I am excited to keep having her explore things like having actual friends, being able to use her time for things beyond simply serving a master, and being able to make her own choices, even if its difficult at times. "Meridian's Most Uncompromising & Unforgiving Warrior" has become kind of her thing, for better or for worse, and her hard-line stance will probably only get harder going forward. Once Cyrus is assassinated, I will probably file a Tier 4 app for her. Oh, and there is also a Zenith spy-tool Hag's Eye implanted in her head she really wants to get out...

EVENT SPECIFIC PLANS::

ANTI-VOREEN BRIGADE 🏹 Hayame really will not be a fan of this dude talking about as Cyrus being replaced through becoming deceased?! as a given. That is super sus to her, and I can’t imagine she’s gonna like him because of that cocky/sinister? behavior, even with his hard-line stance against Zenith, which she would approve of. She doesn’t even love Cyrus that much, but he’s still their leader, and she still values a certain amount of loyalty and does not like how bad and incompetent it would make Meridian look, to her standards, that they let their leader be taken out like that.

☛ So I am open to threads with characters discussing the political tensions in the air! Could also be more movement based, perhaps observing a Voreen rally or volunteering for patrols of Heliopolis/bodyguarding Cyrus.

FIGHTING MONSTERS & ZENITES 🏹 All the talk about Cyrus being Agapitos Voreen's pre-deceasesor may be sus as hell, but I am not sure if it's enough to come to the conclusion that Hayame needs to head straight to Heliopolis once the chaos starts... 🤔 Either way, when monsters and Zenites show up, she will respond with VIOLENCE! She is not one to show any mercy on the battlefield, and in any sort of faction situation... It's On Sight, whether she gets along decently with someone outside of that context or not. Unless a Zenite is very doing non-combat oriented things like evacuations, Hayame will probably attack. ... Honestly, even if they are, maybe.

☛ Open for all flavors of Meridian vs. Zenith PVP and Meridian/Meridian team-ups to fight monsters, etcetera!

DEFENDING THE TRIBUNE? 🏹 Not sure how things will work out in the end for the exact flavor of assassination, but I think I would love if Hayame was briefly involved either running into the Tribune evacuating and joining his guard or holding the line while he escapes somewhere but then maybe she gets taken out and it goes down without her in position to try and interfere?

☛ Maybe looking for ideas on how she might be involved in the Tribune assassination while not managing to prevent it from happening. At the moment, what comes to mind is maybe a surprise attack or explosion or something that would knock her the fuck out somewhere out of the way so she unconscious!snoozes through the actual killing? Could also double as a fun "is Hayame dead?" if she doesn't appear after things calm down and idk someone has to find her half under the rubble somewhere and she has to wake up to "btw Cyrus is dead". But also open to other pitches!!!

CR WISHES:

MERIDIAN ALLIES or ENEMIES 🏹 There was a time when Hayame was beefing with half her own faction because she viewed them as disloyal and not committed enough, but these days she's got some allies... Do we keep it going or shake it back up?

ZENITH ENEMIES 🏹 I am not saying it is impossible, but... most Zenites Hayame hates by default for uh, trying to rob her of the chance to revive her world? Want to try anyway, or just have some negative CR where they try to kill each other? It's, uh, fun!

SELF-IMPROVEMENT TEACHERS 🏹 Over time, Hayame has become able to accept outside help more easily, and has picked up a teacher or two- Fane has been teaching her how to better harness her Meridian magic, Claude has been teaching her how to be Perceived in Public, and Yuri is teaching her how to read, for example. Always open for more!

HUMAN SPARRING PARTNERS 🏹 This is mostly open to established CR she would feel comfortable contacting, but we could also arrange discovering by accident that Hayame now has an amulet that can turn her temporarily human. For funsies and to make it not all-powerful, she is struggling with acclimating to human balance, weakness, and dulled senses. She wants to be of use in Kowloon or Highstorm if need be, so she is motivated to learn to fight better on two legs.

MAGICAL/SURGICAL EYE TRANSPLANT TEAM 🏹 So... a certain Zenith demon put a Hag's Eye in Hayame's empty left eyesocket. But Liem received her original eye from the Timestream somehow. Instead of just cutting out the offending potential spy tool, she now wishes to get her "revenge" by flourishing via looking how she used to... Anyone got skills worth recruiting?

MERIDIAN MENTEES 🏹 A while back, Cyrus tasked the T3 Meridians with serving as mentors for their fellows and helping them Harmonize further... in exchange for a reward Hayame would ICly very much want. She's been trying to do her best on this, so if there's anyone out there thinking they wanna tier up lmk!

ANYTHING ELSE?: UPDATED CR CHART | UPDATED INFO POST | OPT-OUT POST + Hayame crying as I drag her kicking and biting into self improvement