Motoki EnkaiOct 6, 2023 17:37:18 GMT -5
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age 32 years old
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rank Elite Jounin
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Motoki Enkai ALIAS HERE BASIC INFORMATION NAME: Motoki Enkai
AGE: 32
GENDER: Nonbinary (They/Them, He/Him)
BIRTHDAY: --
VILLAGE: Kumogakure
CLAN: Fujiyama
RANK: Elite Jounin
POSITION: Council Member
OTHER ALIAS:
- The Arbiter of Truth [Village] - Title among the Conciliators of Hotei and is only given to one person at a time. The Arbiter of Truth oversees all of the Peacekeepers and so leads the investigative / police part of the religion.
- Jirou Fujiyama [formerly, by family and village] Goes unused now
APPEARANCE HEIGHT: 6’2ft tall (188cm)
WEIGHT: 176lbs (80kg)
6’2ft tall (188cm) with a slouch. They very rarely stand upright at their full height and usually measure in closer to 5’11ft (180cm).
They have pale skin, dark moss green hair cut in a bob with bangs and kind brown eyes, that's accentuated by a thick line of dark red eyeliner. The eyeliner is much thicker below the eyes and goes from the inner corner of the eye and out, almost all the way to their hairline.
They also tend to wear the same red shade but as a lip-tint, but only on the upper lip, and matching nail polish. Unless you caught them just after a truly harrowing fight, their nails are somehow always perfectly manicured.
While wearing their uniform for missions (see picture below) they would also wear a komusō (not pictured), as per usual within the regulations of the Conciliators of Hotei. Both while wearing the komusō and not, they’ll be wearinga pair of glasses made from Mageruhi.
PERSONALITY NINDO: --
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HISTORY
Family relations
Besides several unnamed aunts and uncles, the close family consisted of:
Mother :
Father :
Siblings: Enkai, formerly Jirou, is the 2nd oldest son, out of 7 kids;
Hatsuko Fujiyama
Ichiro Fujiyama
Ami Fujiyama
Jirou Fujiyama
Mine Fujiyama
Saburou Fujiyama
Shirou Fujiyama
Young life 0-7 [Year 991 to 998]
Enkai was an energetic kid , their knees always scraped and dirty and hair a wild mess.
They were raised in the aftermath of the second shinobi war - for while the peace treaty had been signed the aftershocks of such a major event were hard to ignore. Even still, or perhaps in spite of this, Enkai were raised to cultivate their natural generosity in a way where they, along with their siblings, would end up spending most of their free-time outside of school and studying by helping out. This mostly consisted of helping out around the family shop or with whatever minor tasks the clan had they could help with. Being the second youngest of six siblings, Enkai was expected to quietly follow along with the family traditions and expectations set by previous generations.
He especially looked up to the second oldest child, his brother Fujiyama Ichiro. At this time he had just become a Genin and Enkai looked up to him immensely. They wished to one day be just like their brother - a wish they would end up regretting having ever mentioned aloud.
Academy life 8-12 [Year 999 to 1010]
Enkai followed in his older brother Fujiyama Ichiro’s footsteps and joined the shinobi academy. His life at the academy was fine, as Enkai was neither popular nor an outcast. When he wasn’t spending his energy on helping just about everyone around him, whether they’d asked for it or not, he was generally considered kind of boring by the other kids. This might have been because they would be more likely to know when all the shops opened, who had what or could help with what and when new shipments would usually come in, rather than any gossip around the academy of who liked who or when the next social gathering would be.
This would sometimes lead some to misuse his kindness - not that Enkai realised there was anything wrong with this behaviour yet. He would continue to people-please just about everyone, which would lead to him having some very shallow friendships, none of which would last after the final academy exams.
As he grew older, both the familys’ expectations and the responsibility of the tasks he was given rose. It became assumed that they would help with many daily chores and tasks, without question or objection, and that whatever free-time activities or special interests they might have had would undoubtedly and forever take the lowest priority. While the siblings would usually compete somewhat for the attention and praise by the elders in the family, they were all raised with the same principles of always being helpful, responsible and hard-working people. While the sibling rivalries could be intense at times, as competition was seen as a positive trait to become better and more hard-working, they never really mounted into anything malicious.
This lack of a personal life outside of family matters meant that Enkai didn’t really know what to answer whenever anyone would ask what he liked to do - besides helping out his family of course! - but outside of that.. Well. They knew how to sew, cook and clean. They had learned how to do most menial tasks and knew the quickest routes to and from the most visited houses, often ending up bringing messages or gifts back and forth. But, they didn’t have "hobbies” or "interests”. The more they could be just like their older brother, Ichiro Fujiyama, a hard lined young man with a bright future within the Shinobi, the better.
Teenage 13-16 [Year 1011 to 1013]
There was relative peace in Enkais life for the first two months after they had passed their final Academy exam. They had been assigned to a genin team, and while the two other genin had seemed like nice people at the time, Enkai never ended up making any lasting connections with them either. When they had started out on the team, they would have proven themselves as a hard worker and would have slowly started spending more and more time with the team training and less time with his family - or rather, doing whatever menial tasks he had been handed that day.
That was until one day, news had returned of his brother’s death. Fujiyama Ichiro had been killed while out on a mission. No-one in the family, at least as far as Enkai was aware, knew who had done it or if it had been an accident. All they were told was the bare minimum details needed for retrieval of his body and funeral rights and that he had died following direct orders and thus had died with pride. Pride. Enkai tried to retrieve more information but only managed to learn that yes, his brother had died with pride because while he had ended up following some orders where he had ended up ultimately sacrificing his life, which led to the mission being completed successfully. The thought that his beloved brother had died because of the intense need for success, the greed for victory.. That thought would stick to the back of Enkai’s mind for years to come and in retrospect directly influence what they decided to do next.
While his family was mourning the death of the second-born child, Enkai wound up dissociating a lot and treating their time with their Genin team as an almost purely business-like relationship. He would inevitably end up messing up a lot, not truly focusing on any tasks they were assigned and while they did manage to get sent on a mission, a simple delivery a little outside of the village, nothing would ever return to the way it was before his brother's death. Enkai ended up leaving the team about a month later.
With his brother’s death truly marking the starting point, Enkai would start having serious doubts about themselves - realising that they had always just done as they were told and never done anything because they wanted to.
His family ended up forcing Enkai to take up many of his deceased brother's responsibilities, leaning into the fact that Enkai had always wanted to be just like - well here was his chance to do just that.
Enkai would have gone down a darker road these months, heavily leaning into the sorrow and guilt of losing their older brother. They would have shut down emotionally and gone from that bright eyed kid to a selective mute and someone who looked like they never slept or ate. They would also argue with their parents, usually after Enkai would fail to perform their newly assigned tasks to satisfaction. They were always being told that their brother did these tasks with ease when he was alive so why wouldn’t they. Wouldn't, not couldn’t - as if it was a choice and Enkai had decided to actively be a disappointment. It eventually got so far as to their last argument where his mother had yelled out in frustration, claiming Enkai had always been lesser, to which Enkai had asked if she would have been happier if they had traded places - Enkai and Ichiro. The silence and expression on their mothers face had been damning. She had sat defiantly in silence as Enkai had left crying. They never did return and so that would have been the last conversation the two would have had.
Truthfully it wasn't that Enkai didn’t also enjoy helping others, but after an entire lifetime of doing something just because they were told to, and yet still not being good enough, they decided they had to leave. As long as they were reliant on this family, they would always have some control over him, some say in what they could and should do. No, Enkai needed to leave, get away and find out what they thought was important in life.
Enkai would leave his family, name and title of genin behind and leave the village. They would equip themselves with enough survival gear to live out in the mountain passes for a while, carrying enough food on him for a few days. They would be fine, for as long as they didn’t encounter any dangerous wildlife or ill-meaning people of course.
Enkai would spend the next two months travelling north, stopping in smaller villages and farmholds and helping out in return for food and shelter. They would help out and work for a few days before inevitably moving on. They would never stay anywhere for longer than 3 or 4 days. They were searching for something and while yes, the people there could probably continue to benefit from the "free labour”, Enkai never really found what they were looking for in any of those places. However, they would always try to leave every place they went to a little better than when they first arrived there.
One day, while Enkai had been travelling along a mountain pass, as the sun was quickly setting and Enkai had been rushing to try and get to a safer spot to camp. While rushing over some rocks, they would have taken an unfortunate misstep and, unable to save themselves, they took a long tumble down the side of the rocky mountain, breaking their right leg and getting a mild concussion along with several cuts and bruises. Barely being able to move they would have tried to move but without luck, the pain in their leg being almost unbearable. As darkness was clouding their eyes, exhaustion and pain quickly tiring them out, Enkai would have heard a voice call out.
Enkai would have been told later what had happened next.
___, an ___ of the Conciliators of Hotei had heard someone cry out in pain in the distance and come to take a look. They would have found a barely conscious Enkai and after doing some very basic first aid right there, decided the wounds were too deep and serious and took it upon themselves to bring the kid back to their temple. Luckily it would only have been about an hour's travel or so, since ___ knew of the area and knew the most direct route.
When Enkai woke up, they had been bombarded with questions, most of which they couldn’t answer. While their memory would return within a short while, Enkai kept their story mostly to themselves and they tried to focus on healing their leg and mind so that they could leave. They had gotten so used to travelling and moving on within a few days that they could barely sit still the first week they were there, even while confined to bed-rest.
___ had helped take care of Enkai as they healed and would have sort of taken them under their wing, showing them around and introducing them to some of the others ____. The first few times Enkai had asked what they owed the __ and how they could ever repay them for their help, it had been brushed off easily and almost eerily naturally. When, after a few weeks, Enkai had caught ___ alone at night and asked again, demanded to know if this was some demand of their religion or what could possibly possess these people, __ especially, to go this much out of their way to help him, the older __ had smiled and said "I did it because it’s the right thing to do. You don’t help your own people because you demand they do something for you, you do it because they are you as surely as you are them.”
This stuck with Enkai all night and by morning their priorities had started to change. They would start following ____ and the other Arbiters around and slowly start to learn more and more about these Conciliators of Hotei. While there he would have grown to enjoy the community, not out of some expectation from his family looming over him, but from an inner need to infuse the world with more kindness. Helping others and being helped in return made sense to him and so they adjusted easily to that way of life. While on a surface level, this way of life wasn’t all that different from his birth clan’s, there was a sort of nuanced distinction which made all the difference for him.
Enkai would continue to plan on leaving, only to end up staying, whether because of incoming storms, accidents or illnesses or simply because they got too caught up helping with something and forgot their plans for about a year longer before finally, officially joining the Conciliators of Hotei at the age of ___.
They would look back at this time and later thank Hotei for helping them find their way, seeing the god as somehow being the cause for them always having a reason to stay.
Young adult 17-21 [Year 1014 to 1018] - At the Temple of Hotei
For the first few years at the temple, Enkai would have mostly helped with some of the more menial tasks; cleaning, cooking and some basic medical assistance. While the tasks themselves weren't all that different from what they’d helped with back in the village, for the family, the expectations and the pressure to do them flawlessly were basically nonexistent. Whenever they failed, someone would help them stand back up and teach them a better way - and they would end up teaching some of the younger kids in return. Helping out in more than one way.
After a few years, they would have ranked up and decided to join the Peacekeepers.
The Peacekeepers function as the religious investigatory body. While they also did what the Envoys did, help around wherever need might arise, and what the Shepherds did, find those who might have strayed from the path, what Enkai and the other Peacekeepers would have mostly been doing would’ve been resolving any crime or injustices that may have occurred. That meant that within the temple they would have listened to the stories of victims of crime coming in, interrogated some criminals brought in and other investigatory tasks. Outside of the temple they might have had to conduct investigations. This would include attacks, whether inside villages or on the roadsides. They would also be responsible for hunting down criminals of all sorts, although it took a few years before Enkai had joined them for that. It was never really personal, unless of course, the greed of the criminal had been obvious. By then they would have seen it as the criminals brought it upon themselves, relishing in such a terrible sin.
Perhaps because Enkai was so taken with the need to cleanse the world from greed, they were taken and given special training as a potential new Arbiter of Truth. They would have trained with a few others who had also gained the current Arbiter’s favour and trained under them. This wasn’t terribly different from working as a Peacekeeper and much of the day to day life stayed the same - besides learning more about what the Arbiters do, especially the Arbiter of Truth and spending more time learning how to use and control the Ōku no Sukuinote [Many Helping Hands] and later to summon and control even more spectral hands. This would prove to be time well spent as one of the major abilities of the Arbiter of Truth is having those hands go unseen to anyone without the truth sight granted by Hotei.
Midlife promotion 22+ [Year 1015, 0sd to +2sd]
After training under the Arbiter of Truth for a few years, a tragedy struck all of Kaminari no Kuni. A terrible plague had spread across the lands and infected thousands if not more within a short time span, the Conciliators of Hotei had opened their doors to the outside victims and quickly found themselves fighting the sickness both inside and outside of their own ranks as well. The current Arbiter of Truth had been one of many helping out the unfortunate sick, not only by getting them to the temple should they need it but also chasing down those that would seek to capitalise on these poor unfortunates situation and with the Arbiter of Justice bring them to just that - justice.
Unknowingly nearing the end of the plague, the Arbiter of Truth began to succumb to the same sickness which had now taken many of their flock. While they kept up their duties for as long as they could, with only a few hours to spare before they would die, they had decided to pass the title on to Enkai, as the leading recruit who had shown the most promise; both in terms of raw skill and devotion. Enkai was quickly assumed to take the full responsibility and jobs that came with the title of Arbiter of Truth and do their best to lead them through what was left of this crisis.
At that time they would have done as they believed Hotei would have wanted and never let anyone who asked for help go without, no matter their status, wealth or lack thereof. They would have put their own powers and those of the other novitiate, meaning the other once potential arbiter recruits to work and used their extra hands to help harvest and otherwise to chores which required more strength, something that became in high demand the more the plague spread and killed all it could. Once the plague had mostly run its course, the members of the Conciliators of Hotei had decreased drastically and many graves had to be dug, but the spirit of Hotei was strong and their faith in each other and the power they could have together had never felt stronger.
Grown Adult life 32yo [Year 1016 to 1023]
As the Arbiter of Truth, it would have been Enkai’s job to oversee the Peacekeepers and their investigations. They would also be joining in on some of these investigations and help out when needed. Finding deception and greed was truly becoming Enkai’s purpose in life and they thrived within it. Their sort of eccentric personality let them mingle with people of all walks of life and their kind and helpful nature quickly led people to trust them - even with things they might not usually share.
Besides mingling with commoners of all kinds and doing everything else they could to get out there and seek out this terrible sin of greed, they would have worked closely with the other Arbiters. While all three of them got along just fine, Enkai had a difficult time sitting still long enough to fully attend any long winded meetings. They had respect for their fellow Arbiters and would of course have tried to help out in any way they could. They would see no reason not to, they were all serving Hotei after all.
Note to self:
Add more about how they become a Council Member
Add more from their adult life??
Potentially who taught them to fight - No named arbiter who found them??
TURTLE
COMBAT INFORMATION NATURAL CHAKRA: Fuuton (wind)
CHAKRA AFFINITIES: n/a
PRIMARY SPECIALIZATION: Bukijutsu
SECONDARY SPECIALIZATION: Taijutsu
SUMMONING CONTRACT & FAMILIAR: Turtle (smol bby)
INVENTORY
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SPECIAL ABILITIES
Hotei Religion Abilities
Helping hands and Rely on others
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Hands of Truth
Arbiter of Truth ability
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Bukijutsu through Hotei hands
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Strength
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Dexterity
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Reflexes
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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION CHAT NAME: Leviathan
HOW'D YOU FIND US?: Yori-”the bully”-tomo
LOCKER COMBO: -- (General, character rules + Newbie guide)
FACE CLAIM SERIES: Art by me
FACE CLAIM NAME: Based on Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti but art by me
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last edit by Enkai Motoki on Oct 16, 2023 23:58:33 GMT -5
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