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SAEJIMA TAIGA (Ore)

TEAM
The Forge

AGE
47

HEIGHT
190cm/6' 3"

PRONOUNS
he/him

Appearance + Pings

Saejima is Tall and Built, with brown eyes and dark hair that he keeps buzzed short.

He's got scars all over but the most visible one would be the one over his left eyebrow. Spanning his entire back is an irezumi of a tiger.

For his icon, he wears a tiger's eye pendant in the shape of a claw.

Pings as a normal human!

Limelight Info

Powers

Sharpen
He can buff physical objects, like sharpening or enhancing them - but only to the limit of the material the object is made of.

Tiger's Desperation
The ability to buff his physical strength/attack power, but he has to take (physical) damage first to use it and it's limited by the level of damage.

Shapeshift
Can turn into a cat. Has to be pet to be able to change.

Limelight AU

Nom de Plume is Ore. He probably has a family name he picked for teaching purposes, I haven't thought of it yet.

He grew up in the Facility, Forge's orphanage, from the time he was 12. He doesn't remember anything before that. Where does the accent come from? Mystery.

He was something of a troublemaker as a teenager, but after one of his teachers took interest in him and his wood carvings he stopped getting into trouble. He became something of a mentor and father figure to Ore and inspired him to become a teacher when he got older.

He owns the Forge workshop and lives above it with everyone else who stays there. Opened it up a few years after he started teaching as a side gig, but ended up running it as a full business instead.

He's a teacher! He teaches general education math and switched to doing it part time last year. No real reason, he just wanted a change of pace.

He speaks properly and without as much of an accent when he's teaching!

His main focus in the shop is woodworking and carving, but he does dabble in other things too.

He's sheep_game PG, so if your character doesn't recognize him, he'll just roll with it, no worries.

Permissions

SHIPPING
sorry he's married

SMUT
yes

VIOLENCE
hell yes

KILLING
maybe

Player Comfort Notes

No graphic/visual eye and teeth trauma, please!

For anything else, I'll get into contact or you're more than welcome to hit me up to see if something works. ♥

code by puddings

Character Canon
Yakuza (Sheep PG)

Player
Cass

Contact
bromances | Fiendarie

DM Policy
chat anytime

Inbox/Extras
IC Inbox

Comments

Meeting Sasai

[throughbamboo]

A barely fifteen year old Ore (Saejima Taiga, as he reluctantly introduces himself as later) is following a man down an alley - and has been following him for a while. He looks like a friendly businessman and that makes him an easy mark, so as soon as they're alone Ore jumps him.

Except the man isn't a businessman and even though Ore is big for his age and just as strong, the man kicks his ass.

But instead of beating him worse or calling the cops, the man compliments Ore's strength and asks him why he jumped him. Frustrated, Ore breaks down and tells him: his sister Yasuko is really sick and he needs the money to pay for her treatments. When asked about his parents, Ore tells him that they're not around and that it's just the two of them.

Then the man makes an offer: work for him and he'll pay for Yasuko's treatments. When Ore calls bullshit, the man explains who he actually is: Hideki Sasai, patriarch of his own yakuza family. He repeats the offer and it's an honest one, not an ultimatum. Ore can take it or leave it.

It's not something he has to think about. He'll do anything for his sister.