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Name/Alias: Wei
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Contact: plurk: zeroq1 aim: weijiangling
Timezone: EST
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Already In-game: Also apped Anghel Higure if that counts
Character Information
Name: Souji Okita
Fandom: Hakuoki
Canonpoint: Recovering from his bullet wounds in Edo
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Physical Description: Have a pretty picture
History: Sadly the only good wiki is from the anime, and I'm pulling him from the game, so here goes.
The game's story begins when Chizuru, a lone girl in Kyoto dressed in men's clothing in the hopes that being seen as a boy would make it easier for her to travel alone, happens down the wrong street and meets a few creepy Shinsengumi guys who are killed a few minutes later by other Shinsengumi guys.
As we find out later, the extra creepy ones were an experimental kind of troop called furies, who had drunk a substance called the Water of Life, which embues them, partially, with the power of a demon. They become physically stronger and heal from wounds almost instantaneously (unless pierced through the heart). The drawback of this is that they also go crazy and lose all ability to do anything other than attack things indiscriminately once they smell blood. In this instance, the sane non-fury Shinsengumi officers had gone out to put a stop to the blood-crazed furies. And Chizuru just happened to be a witness.
The captains brought her back to their headquarters to decide what to do with her, debating openly over whether or not this witness needed to die because of what "he" saw. Several of them changed their attitude on the killing front when they realised she was a girl, and once they found out she was also the daughter of a doctor they had an interest in tracking down and talking to, it was decided that she could stay with them as long as she didn't tell secrets and didn't get in the way.
Of the captains, Okita was one of the least welcoming to her. While he never bore her any real ill will, he casually made comments about how he could still always kill her if she got out of line. While these were often presented as jokes, Chizuru—rightly--sensed that he would hardly think twice about it if a situation came up that put her that much on his wrong side, so she found him one of the most terrifying people she had to deal with. Still, he had no reason to actually threaten her, and made a point of protecting her whenever the need arose, just like everyone else.
One day while she was accompanying him on a patrol route, they ran into a woman named Kaoru who looked exactly like Chizuru. Okita spotted the resemblance immediately, and made them stand side by side so he could get a closer look. He was more amused by the coincidence than anything, though the existence of such an exact lookalike was a bit of a mystery. As far as Chizuru knew, she had no relatives in the area.
During the battle at Ikeda Inn, the Shinsengumi met a few real demons who were working for their enemies. They had inhuman strength and healing abilities, to the point where they were able to take on a Shinsengumi captain one-on-one and easily win. They ultimately chose to withdraw, but Okita was injured in the battle. It was later revealed that these men also had an interest in Chizuru, claiming that she herself was a pure-blooded demon like them. As such, one of them, Chikage Kazama, wanted her for his bride. That claim came as a surprise to Chizuru, who had always thought of herself as a normal girl, though she couldn't deny that she'd had the ability to heal unusually quickly for her whole life. He made several attempts to kidnap Chizuru, but the Shinsengumi fought back every time, both because he was their enemy, and because they had sworn to protect Chizuru and didn't want to see her just be used as a tool to strengthen demonkind.
Okita's injury eventually healed, but he began to seem unwell otherwise. The leaders of the Shinsengumi had noticed him caughing and refused to let him take part in any missions more strenuous than a normal patrol. After a physical exam conducted by Doctor Matsumoto, a friend of Chizuru's father, Chizuru overheard some interesting information. The doctor and Okita had stepped aside to talk privately, and she was worried so she listened in. As they talked, she discovered two important pieces of news. First was that Okita had tuberculosis. Matsumoto told him that he would need to go find somewhere peaceful to relax and take care of himself, but Okita adamantly refused to leave the Shinsengumi, saying that he lived to kill the Shinsengumi's enemies, and in that role, he was already prepared to die at any time. Matsumoto agreed to let him stay, and also to keep the truth of his illness a secret, as long as Okita was willing to take medicine and follow instructions on how to take care of himself. The second thing Chizuru learned was that her father, who was still missing, was the one who had done the research on the Water of Life and created the furies.
Once the private conversation was over, Okita called Chizuru out from her hiding place. He knew she was there the whole time, and that she'd overheard everything. He tried to play off the news about his illness as no big deal, saying the doctor was just guessing, and Chizuru shouldn't take it so seriously. And of course, she wouldn't tell anyone else something when it was just a guess, would she? He might have to kill her after all if she did that. Chizuru, of course, knew it wasn't just a guess, and worried about him quite a bit, but she agreed to keep the information secret.
Later, there was talk of how someone who had looked like Chizuru had interfered with Shinsengumi business and allowed some of their captives to escape. After that, the next time Chizuru saw Kaoru again, she ran after her to ask whether she had anything to do with the incident, which she denied. Okita caught up with her and told her that he agreed the question needed to be asked, but chided her about how reckless it had been to run off alone after a potential enemy.
As it turned out, Kaoru had been the one responsible for the incident. During a battle at the Shinsengumi's headquarters, Chizuru ran to check on Okita, who was supposed to be resting. When she got there, he was already preparing to join the battle, but she tried to convince him to stay back for the sake of his health. This conversation was interrupted by Kaoru, who was revealed to also be a demon, and in fact, Chizuru's twin brother, who had chosen to disguise his identity by dressing as a woman. (There is something about this family...) He explained that their birth family had been attacked by humans when they refused to participate in human politics years before, and most of them were killed. Chizuru was taken in by the man she had assumed to be her birth father, and Kaoru was raised by a different family.
Okita overheard the conversation and stayed surprisingly calm, but ultimately asked what Kaoru's intentions were regarding Chizuru, and then tried to get him to stop blocking his way to the rest of the fight. Kaoru pointed out that he wouldn't be able to fight in his condition, and offered the Water of Life as a solution. The substance had been refined since the Shinsengumi first started using it, but it wasn't much better. While it wouldn't cause someone to go outright crazy anymore, the people who had taken the new version still experienced bouts of bloodlust, during which time they'd have to fight to keep control of themselves and they would be in terrible pain unless they drank blood to alleviate it. Furies were also sensitive to sunlight and could only operate at night. Still, Kaoru offered it to Okita as a way to cure his illness and become stronger so that he would be able to fight again, and help protect Chizuru from the likes of Kazama.
As Okita was considering what Kaoru had said, they were attacked by several furies. Okita moved to fight them off, but discovered he could barely use his sword as it stood. Rather than be useless, he chose to drink the Water of Life and become a fury. Once the battle was over, Kaoru's demeanor changed completely. He admitted that while he had sought to find his sister, he had always hated her for her privilege. She had grown up having a normal life with a "father" who loved her. Meanwhile, Kaoru had taken nothing but abuse from his own family, simply because they would have preferred if he were female. So he had offered the Water of Life to Okita not because he wanted to be helpful, but rather because he could see that Chizuru and Okita had become close, and he wanted Chizuru to suffer. He left then, but with a threat that this was only the beginning, and he would see her suffer further.
Okita took up a position on the night patrol with the other furies, and things continued without much incident until the Shinengumi's chief, Kondou, was shot in the shoulder while returning from a war conference. Okita, usually calm in the face of almost anything, was enraged when he heard the news. He was furious with Hijikata, second in command, for letting the chief go out with only a few guards, even though that had actually been Kondou's decision. Okita threatened that Hijikata wouldn't be forgiven if Kondou died from that wound.
Shortly after, Okita disappeared at night without giving word to anyone. When Chizuru realised he was missing, she went looking for him, and found him in the middle of slaughtering a large group of enemy soldiers. He claimed he was just doing his job, but the truth was that he wanted revenge on anyone who may have had a hand in the attack on Kondou. Chizuru tried to talk him out of it, saying that what he was doing wasn't right, and that killing a bunch of people wouldn't make Kandou recover any faster. For the first time in a long time, his threat to kill her if she didn't knock it off sounded serious, but she didn't back down, and ultimately she convinced him to stop his rampage. He wasn't willing to kill her in order to keep up something he knew wasn't right to begin with. Fortunately for everyone involved, Kondou began to recover from his wound.
Kaoru showed up again not long after that, and Okita ran after him, confronting him to ask if he was the one who had shot Kondou, to which he admitted that he may have had a hand in setting up that incident. Unfortunately, during that conversation, he had also lured Okita and Chizuru into a trap, and they found themselves surrounded by gunmen. Kaoru suggested they kill Chizuru first because she was weaker, knowing perfectly well that Okita, being a fury, would put himself in front of her to protect her. Kaoru's goal was to make Chizuru suffer, and once again he'd hurt Okita toward that end. He walked off laughing into the night, leaving Chizuru with a badly injured Okita to take care of.
For some reason, despite being a fury, the bullet wounds weren't healing quickly like they should, and Okita was on the verge of dying. As such, he was sent to Osaka to be treated by Doctor Matsumoto. After some research, it was concluded that the bullets had been silver, and that silver bullets have the ability to do more permanent damage to a fury. Doctor Matsumoto treated the wounds, and Okita began to heal, but it would take a long time. It also turned out that Kaoru had misled him about the Water of Life—while it allows him to heal wounds, and made his coughing stop for a time, it doesn't cure diseases. Okita may have gotten stronger, but he still had tuberculosis.
This is the canon point I'll be taking him from, and he has a few different possible endings after that, so I'm going to stop here. Please let me know if you want me to fill in more of what happens later.
Personality: Okita Souji is a captain of the Shinsengumi; smiling, laid back, and very, very deadly. He is one of the most talented swordsmen of his time, and he knows it perfectly well. Fighting is his job, after all, and he may as well take pride in his talents. He has keen senses, and is very observant. In fact, he was one of the captains who had noticed Chizuru was a girl without anyone else telling him. Unless the other person is very skilled at masking whatever they don't want noticed, he can very easily pick out if someone is lying to him, or hiding somewhere. He called out Chizuru when she was eavesdropping on a conversation, and repeatedly picked on her for trying to lie to him about things, because she's a bad liar in general and she should stop thinking she could make it work on him.
In his interactions with people, Souji is blunt when he wants to be, and equally good at keeping secrets when he wants to. There actually doesn't seem to be much in between. Unfortunately for everyone who knows him, his generally straightforward way of speaking and laid back demeanor make it very easy for him to slip in a casual lie without being noticed. At one point, he wanted to go do something privately, so he concluded his conversation with Chizuru in the same casual tone he'd been using, saying he needed to go talk to one of the other captains... only for that same captain to find Chizuru a few minutes later saying he couldn't find Souji anywhere.
Similarly, he's very good at hiding his emotions and laughing things off like they don't matter to him. Even after he blew up at Hijikata about Kondou being shot, a few hours later, he was joking casually about Kondou having bad luck. Most of the time, he has an amused smile on his face, like he just finds life funny and none of it matters overly much. It's not that things don't matter—often the opposite—but that he just doesn't want other people to see it, partly because he doesn't want anyone to worry about him. On the same lines, he isn't especially obvious with what he thinks of people, except possibly when he really dislikes them. Chizuru spent a long time thinking she meant absolutely nothing to him when he actually liked her. Between using the same sort of laid back tone with almost everyone, and doing things like making casual jokes about killing people, it can be awfully hard to tell. Still, he generally has the best interests of the people around him at heart. His words aren't always kind, and he'll call people stupid to their faces, but somehow he usually means well by it. He cares about the mental and physical wellbeing of the people he works with, and it shows... once you translate his words a little.
Despite his reluctance to show outright how much he cares about someone, once he does care deeply about someone, he is intensely loyal to them. That's why he lost his cool when Kondou was injured. Kondou's family took Souji in when he was a young orphan, and he loves Kondou like a brother. There is a later incident in which Kondou gets captured by the enemy, and Souji once again is furious with Hijikata for letting that happen. Even so, Hijikata is important to him, too, and he's grateful to Chizuru for talking through it with him before he meets with Hijikata, and for making such an effort to convince him that no matter what happens, killing Hijikata for it won't make anything better. Even though he easily says he's prepared to kill a friend if they become an enemy, actually doing so would hurt him a lot more than he's willing to admit. Make no mistake, though-- he would still do it if he thought it was necessary.
Feeling useful is very important to him. When he was sick and ordered to stay out of battles, he hated it because he felt like his purpose had been taken away. Souji truly believes that the only thing he's really good at is killing and that his worth to the Shinsengumi lies in killing their enemies. He chose to drink the Water of Life because he felt like it was the only way he could get back on his feet, and because it would make him an even better weapon. When he snuck out to get revenge for Kondou, he already knew that killing whoever might be responsible wouldn't do anything to help his friend recover, but he wanted to do something so he turned to the one thing he knew he could do, whether he honestly thought it was right or not.
In a similar vein, Souji is very okay with the concept of his own death. He by no means wants to die, even when things get pretty terrible for him, but as far as he's concerned, he's a killer, and that means accepting that one day it might be him that loses a fight to the death. Accepting dying of a disease is a little harder, but he ultimately takes the same attitude toward that. When Matsumoto tells him he should go somewhere peaceful and try to recover, he refuses, saying that his place is with the Shinsengumi—he exists to take out their enemies for them, and if his life has a shorter time limit, then that's all the more reason to stay and keep fighting. Souji would much rather put himself in mortal danger than live a life that doesn't feel important to him.
Personality Changes: N/A
Abilities: Prior to drinking the Water of Life, he had no superhuman abilities. He was an amazing swordsman, probably about the best a normal human can be, but that's all. After becoming a fury, he became physically stronger than a normal human, and able to heal wounds nearly instantly, with the exception of those made by silver weapons. When he's drawing on his fury abilities, his hair turns white, and returns to its normal color once he relaxes out of it.
Being a fury comes with disadvantages, however. First of all, they react badly to daylight, and find being awake and doing things during the day to be very strenuous. Second, they have bouts of bloodlust, in which their body will absolutely crave blood. This can be triggered by the smell of blood, or just happen sometimes on its own. The symptoms can be alleviated if they drink blood, but their body slowly grows to require more blood each time as it progresses. It is possible to fight through an episode of bloodlust, but it debilitatingly painful. Third, and the part that's still unknown to Okita, is that the quick healing of a fury has a price. The body uses the healing ability it naturally has, but much more quickly. In short, a few minutes of intense healing can take years off of a fury's lifespan. Like any other fury, when Okita's life energy has been used up, his body will simply crumble to dust.
Character Information
First Person Sample: Musebox thread
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Name/Alias: Wei
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wei_jianglingContact: plurk: zeroq1 aim: weijiangling
Timezone: EST
HMD: here
Already In-game: Also apped Anghel Higure if that counts
Character Information
Name: Souji Okita
Fandom: Hakuoki
Canonpoint: Recovering from his bullet wounds in Edo
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Physical Description: Have a pretty picture
History: Sadly the only good wiki is from the anime, and I'm pulling him from the game, so here goes.
The game's story begins when Chizuru, a lone girl in Kyoto dressed in men's clothing in the hopes that being seen as a boy would make it easier for her to travel alone, happens down the wrong street and meets a few creepy Shinsengumi guys who are killed a few minutes later by other Shinsengumi guys.
As we find out later, the extra creepy ones were an experimental kind of troop called furies, who had drunk a substance called the Water of Life, which embues them, partially, with the power of a demon. They become physically stronger and heal from wounds almost instantaneously (unless pierced through the heart). The drawback of this is that they also go crazy and lose all ability to do anything other than attack things indiscriminately once they smell blood. In this instance, the sane non-fury Shinsengumi officers had gone out to put a stop to the blood-crazed furies. And Chizuru just happened to be a witness.
The captains brought her back to their headquarters to decide what to do with her, debating openly over whether or not this witness needed to die because of what "he" saw. Several of them changed their attitude on the killing front when they realised she was a girl, and once they found out she was also the daughter of a doctor they had an interest in tracking down and talking to, it was decided that she could stay with them as long as she didn't tell secrets and didn't get in the way.
Of the captains, Okita was one of the least welcoming to her. While he never bore her any real ill will, he casually made comments about how he could still always kill her if she got out of line. While these were often presented as jokes, Chizuru—rightly--sensed that he would hardly think twice about it if a situation came up that put her that much on his wrong side, so she found him one of the most terrifying people she had to deal with. Still, he had no reason to actually threaten her, and made a point of protecting her whenever the need arose, just like everyone else.
One day while she was accompanying him on a patrol route, they ran into a woman named Kaoru who looked exactly like Chizuru. Okita spotted the resemblance immediately, and made them stand side by side so he could get a closer look. He was more amused by the coincidence than anything, though the existence of such an exact lookalike was a bit of a mystery. As far as Chizuru knew, she had no relatives in the area.
During the battle at Ikeda Inn, the Shinsengumi met a few real demons who were working for their enemies. They had inhuman strength and healing abilities, to the point where they were able to take on a Shinsengumi captain one-on-one and easily win. They ultimately chose to withdraw, but Okita was injured in the battle. It was later revealed that these men also had an interest in Chizuru, claiming that she herself was a pure-blooded demon like them. As such, one of them, Chikage Kazama, wanted her for his bride. That claim came as a surprise to Chizuru, who had always thought of herself as a normal girl, though she couldn't deny that she'd had the ability to heal unusually quickly for her whole life. He made several attempts to kidnap Chizuru, but the Shinsengumi fought back every time, both because he was their enemy, and because they had sworn to protect Chizuru and didn't want to see her just be used as a tool to strengthen demonkind.
Okita's injury eventually healed, but he began to seem unwell otherwise. The leaders of the Shinsengumi had noticed him caughing and refused to let him take part in any missions more strenuous than a normal patrol. After a physical exam conducted by Doctor Matsumoto, a friend of Chizuru's father, Chizuru overheard some interesting information. The doctor and Okita had stepped aside to talk privately, and she was worried so she listened in. As they talked, she discovered two important pieces of news. First was that Okita had tuberculosis. Matsumoto told him that he would need to go find somewhere peaceful to relax and take care of himself, but Okita adamantly refused to leave the Shinsengumi, saying that he lived to kill the Shinsengumi's enemies, and in that role, he was already prepared to die at any time. Matsumoto agreed to let him stay, and also to keep the truth of his illness a secret, as long as Okita was willing to take medicine and follow instructions on how to take care of himself. The second thing Chizuru learned was that her father, who was still missing, was the one who had done the research on the Water of Life and created the furies.
Once the private conversation was over, Okita called Chizuru out from her hiding place. He knew she was there the whole time, and that she'd overheard everything. He tried to play off the news about his illness as no big deal, saying the doctor was just guessing, and Chizuru shouldn't take it so seriously. And of course, she wouldn't tell anyone else something when it was just a guess, would she? He might have to kill her after all if she did that. Chizuru, of course, knew it wasn't just a guess, and worried about him quite a bit, but she agreed to keep the information secret.
Later, there was talk of how someone who had looked like Chizuru had interfered with Shinsengumi business and allowed some of their captives to escape. After that, the next time Chizuru saw Kaoru again, she ran after her to ask whether she had anything to do with the incident, which she denied. Okita caught up with her and told her that he agreed the question needed to be asked, but chided her about how reckless it had been to run off alone after a potential enemy.
As it turned out, Kaoru had been the one responsible for the incident. During a battle at the Shinsengumi's headquarters, Chizuru ran to check on Okita, who was supposed to be resting. When she got there, he was already preparing to join the battle, but she tried to convince him to stay back for the sake of his health. This conversation was interrupted by Kaoru, who was revealed to also be a demon, and in fact, Chizuru's twin brother, who had chosen to disguise his identity by dressing as a woman. (There is something about this family...) He explained that their birth family had been attacked by humans when they refused to participate in human politics years before, and most of them were killed. Chizuru was taken in by the man she had assumed to be her birth father, and Kaoru was raised by a different family.
Okita overheard the conversation and stayed surprisingly calm, but ultimately asked what Kaoru's intentions were regarding Chizuru, and then tried to get him to stop blocking his way to the rest of the fight. Kaoru pointed out that he wouldn't be able to fight in his condition, and offered the Water of Life as a solution. The substance had been refined since the Shinsengumi first started using it, but it wasn't much better. While it wouldn't cause someone to go outright crazy anymore, the people who had taken the new version still experienced bouts of bloodlust, during which time they'd have to fight to keep control of themselves and they would be in terrible pain unless they drank blood to alleviate it. Furies were also sensitive to sunlight and could only operate at night. Still, Kaoru offered it to Okita as a way to cure his illness and become stronger so that he would be able to fight again, and help protect Chizuru from the likes of Kazama.
As Okita was considering what Kaoru had said, they were attacked by several furies. Okita moved to fight them off, but discovered he could barely use his sword as it stood. Rather than be useless, he chose to drink the Water of Life and become a fury. Once the battle was over, Kaoru's demeanor changed completely. He admitted that while he had sought to find his sister, he had always hated her for her privilege. She had grown up having a normal life with a "father" who loved her. Meanwhile, Kaoru had taken nothing but abuse from his own family, simply because they would have preferred if he were female. So he had offered the Water of Life to Okita not because he wanted to be helpful, but rather because he could see that Chizuru and Okita had become close, and he wanted Chizuru to suffer. He left then, but with a threat that this was only the beginning, and he would see her suffer further.
Okita took up a position on the night patrol with the other furies, and things continued without much incident until the Shinengumi's chief, Kondou, was shot in the shoulder while returning from a war conference. Okita, usually calm in the face of almost anything, was enraged when he heard the news. He was furious with Hijikata, second in command, for letting the chief go out with only a few guards, even though that had actually been Kondou's decision. Okita threatened that Hijikata wouldn't be forgiven if Kondou died from that wound.
Shortly after, Okita disappeared at night without giving word to anyone. When Chizuru realised he was missing, she went looking for him, and found him in the middle of slaughtering a large group of enemy soldiers. He claimed he was just doing his job, but the truth was that he wanted revenge on anyone who may have had a hand in the attack on Kondou. Chizuru tried to talk him out of it, saying that what he was doing wasn't right, and that killing a bunch of people wouldn't make Kandou recover any faster. For the first time in a long time, his threat to kill her if she didn't knock it off sounded serious, but she didn't back down, and ultimately she convinced him to stop his rampage. He wasn't willing to kill her in order to keep up something he knew wasn't right to begin with. Fortunately for everyone involved, Kondou began to recover from his wound.
Kaoru showed up again not long after that, and Okita ran after him, confronting him to ask if he was the one who had shot Kondou, to which he admitted that he may have had a hand in setting up that incident. Unfortunately, during that conversation, he had also lured Okita and Chizuru into a trap, and they found themselves surrounded by gunmen. Kaoru suggested they kill Chizuru first because she was weaker, knowing perfectly well that Okita, being a fury, would put himself in front of her to protect her. Kaoru's goal was to make Chizuru suffer, and once again he'd hurt Okita toward that end. He walked off laughing into the night, leaving Chizuru with a badly injured Okita to take care of.
For some reason, despite being a fury, the bullet wounds weren't healing quickly like they should, and Okita was on the verge of dying. As such, he was sent to Osaka to be treated by Doctor Matsumoto. After some research, it was concluded that the bullets had been silver, and that silver bullets have the ability to do more permanent damage to a fury. Doctor Matsumoto treated the wounds, and Okita began to heal, but it would take a long time. It also turned out that Kaoru had misled him about the Water of Life—while it allows him to heal wounds, and made his coughing stop for a time, it doesn't cure diseases. Okita may have gotten stronger, but he still had tuberculosis.
This is the canon point I'll be taking him from, and he has a few different possible endings after that, so I'm going to stop here. Please let me know if you want me to fill in more of what happens later.
Personality: Okita Souji is a captain of the Shinsengumi; smiling, laid back, and very, very deadly. He is one of the most talented swordsmen of his time, and he knows it perfectly well. Fighting is his job, after all, and he may as well take pride in his talents. He has keen senses, and is very observant. In fact, he was one of the captains who had noticed Chizuru was a girl without anyone else telling him. Unless the other person is very skilled at masking whatever they don't want noticed, he can very easily pick out if someone is lying to him, or hiding somewhere. He called out Chizuru when she was eavesdropping on a conversation, and repeatedly picked on her for trying to lie to him about things, because she's a bad liar in general and she should stop thinking she could make it work on him.
In his interactions with people, Souji is blunt when he wants to be, and equally good at keeping secrets when he wants to. There actually doesn't seem to be much in between. Unfortunately for everyone who knows him, his generally straightforward way of speaking and laid back demeanor make it very easy for him to slip in a casual lie without being noticed. At one point, he wanted to go do something privately, so he concluded his conversation with Chizuru in the same casual tone he'd been using, saying he needed to go talk to one of the other captains... only for that same captain to find Chizuru a few minutes later saying he couldn't find Souji anywhere.
Similarly, he's very good at hiding his emotions and laughing things off like they don't matter to him. Even after he blew up at Hijikata about Kondou being shot, a few hours later, he was joking casually about Kondou having bad luck. Most of the time, he has an amused smile on his face, like he just finds life funny and none of it matters overly much. It's not that things don't matter—often the opposite—but that he just doesn't want other people to see it, partly because he doesn't want anyone to worry about him. On the same lines, he isn't especially obvious with what he thinks of people, except possibly when he really dislikes them. Chizuru spent a long time thinking she meant absolutely nothing to him when he actually liked her. Between using the same sort of laid back tone with almost everyone, and doing things like making casual jokes about killing people, it can be awfully hard to tell. Still, he generally has the best interests of the people around him at heart. His words aren't always kind, and he'll call people stupid to their faces, but somehow he usually means well by it. He cares about the mental and physical wellbeing of the people he works with, and it shows... once you translate his words a little.
Despite his reluctance to show outright how much he cares about someone, once he does care deeply about someone, he is intensely loyal to them. That's why he lost his cool when Kondou was injured. Kondou's family took Souji in when he was a young orphan, and he loves Kondou like a brother. There is a later incident in which Kondou gets captured by the enemy, and Souji once again is furious with Hijikata for letting that happen. Even so, Hijikata is important to him, too, and he's grateful to Chizuru for talking through it with him before he meets with Hijikata, and for making such an effort to convince him that no matter what happens, killing Hijikata for it won't make anything better. Even though he easily says he's prepared to kill a friend if they become an enemy, actually doing so would hurt him a lot more than he's willing to admit. Make no mistake, though-- he would still do it if he thought it was necessary.
Feeling useful is very important to him. When he was sick and ordered to stay out of battles, he hated it because he felt like his purpose had been taken away. Souji truly believes that the only thing he's really good at is killing and that his worth to the Shinsengumi lies in killing their enemies. He chose to drink the Water of Life because he felt like it was the only way he could get back on his feet, and because it would make him an even better weapon. When he snuck out to get revenge for Kondou, he already knew that killing whoever might be responsible wouldn't do anything to help his friend recover, but he wanted to do something so he turned to the one thing he knew he could do, whether he honestly thought it was right or not.
In a similar vein, Souji is very okay with the concept of his own death. He by no means wants to die, even when things get pretty terrible for him, but as far as he's concerned, he's a killer, and that means accepting that one day it might be him that loses a fight to the death. Accepting dying of a disease is a little harder, but he ultimately takes the same attitude toward that. When Matsumoto tells him he should go somewhere peaceful and try to recover, he refuses, saying that his place is with the Shinsengumi—he exists to take out their enemies for them, and if his life has a shorter time limit, then that's all the more reason to stay and keep fighting. Souji would much rather put himself in mortal danger than live a life that doesn't feel important to him.
Personality Changes: N/A
Abilities: Prior to drinking the Water of Life, he had no superhuman abilities. He was an amazing swordsman, probably about the best a normal human can be, but that's all. After becoming a fury, he became physically stronger than a normal human, and able to heal wounds nearly instantly, with the exception of those made by silver weapons. When he's drawing on his fury abilities, his hair turns white, and returns to its normal color once he relaxes out of it.
Being a fury comes with disadvantages, however. First of all, they react badly to daylight, and find being awake and doing things during the day to be very strenuous. Second, they have bouts of bloodlust, in which their body will absolutely crave blood. This can be triggered by the smell of blood, or just happen sometimes on its own. The symptoms can be alleviated if they drink blood, but their body slowly grows to require more blood each time as it progresses. It is possible to fight through an episode of bloodlust, but it debilitatingly painful. Third, and the part that's still unknown to Okita, is that the quick healing of a fury has a price. The body uses the healing ability it naturally has, but much more quickly. In short, a few minutes of intense healing can take years off of a fury's lifespan. Like any other fury, when Okita's life energy has been used up, his body will simply crumble to dust.
Character Information
First Person Sample: Musebox thread
Third Person Sample: TDM
