Cat - Vulpix.ck: Name: Sohma Kiyoshi
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Zodiac: Cat
Appearance: Kiyo never strikes you as being a tall person, in fact - despite that he’s 6’2” - he appears to be rather small, and this may be down to his narrow figure and daintily-pottering gait, or maybe his ability of folding his body in on itself by curling up or stooping or sitting cross-legged. Tussocky and mussed, his jet-black hair lies towards the front-centre of his head in a tufted and quipped, jutting fringe. His round, ever-so-slanted amber eyes are always wide-awake open, and typically pointed ears and brow always appear cocked and open to conversation and little scritchy noises. He’s peachy keen and has a solitary cowlick at the back that annoys everyone but himself Often relentlessly stares at people with an intensity that makes them very uncomfortable.
He has an absolute abandon of constrictive clothing - it makes him claustrophobic for the most part, though sometimes his love of snuggly things wins him over and so you may find him in a sleeveless-collared furry tank top or cashmere polo-neck; for the most part he dresses in loose shirts, linen pants and no socks. Bare feet or sandals are his choice of footwear - he can be a scary bugger, padding around silently and peering through the darkness at night. He wears his zodiac beads around his wrist, and by Shujouteki-law keeps them on even with his charcoal-coloured salesman suit.
Animal Appearance: A slender (if sorta gangly) black cat with yellow-amber eyes, short fur, and pricked ears. He has an inquisitive meow, can conjure smarm on whim, and tends to push his nose where it’s not welcome - a very ordinary kitty indeed. The cowlick remains..
Personality: He’s a tomcat - headstrong, bold and independent, with the scent of rivalry stinging strong in his nostrils. He can be ferocious, and Shujouteki absolutely makes his blood boil. Despite all this, he’s a soft pudding on the inside and he really appreciates the company of his friends (he, Saburo and Rufus are as thick as three thieves in a pod) and a casual easy-come/easy-go interaction with the public. He’s fairly well educated but god knows how - the most-likely explanation is through subliminal cat-nap learning and accidental eavesdropping, as he’s an undisciplined self-confessed slacker. He can come across as a bit of an airhead in general: carefree, ignorant, and blissful for all it’s worth - this is were charm comes into it, for a perpetually curious, innocent creature of such a laidback nature can never be disliked.
History: As tradition goes, Kiyo wasn’t very well received by the Sohmas due to his ‘cat curse’. Those who lived within the walls who were typically nice to the zodiac kids regarded him as a freak, and those who disliked the zodiac to begin with disliked him especially. This was partly to do with the fact that the cat was tricked out of his place in the mythical banquet by the rat, and partly to do with the bonus transformation the cat zodiac possesses: a disfigured and repulsive creature which I won’t mention so much in case you haven’t read that part of the manga yet.. ^_~
As children Saburo and Kiyoshi were generally unfriendly kids of a similar age, and so hardly ever interacted with each other, living in different parts of the Sohma residence. The stubborn and shy young Kiyoshi always wanted to be left alone for all that people disliked him, yet upon meeting an older Zodiac child he found himself in an unexpected war against the fiend. It was, namely, against Rufus - the jovial bully of a cousin who took to pestering Kiyo a lot in his kinship, but who also managed to bring the cat-child out of his shell with startling effectiveness. As they grew older it seemed that every consequent year brought a whole new litter of increasingly annoying zodiac sprogs, and eventually the Cat vs. Dog war ceased as the two joined forces to oppose the ‘young ’uns’. Another was added to their team in the form of Saburo, a politer creature who calmed the other two somewhat and completed their awesomeness.
And so they became an inseparable trio, and henceforth legend was made, though still a friendly teasing persisted between Kiyo and Rufus. Saburo went to law school, and as Rufus approached his winning long-term career as a lecherous freeloader, it came time for Kiyo’s traditional cat confinement within the Sohma grounds. True to his trip-switch rebellious nature, Kiyo adopted a ‘not bloody likely’ approach to the whole thing, had a fearsome fight with Shujouteki that no-one really knows about but which was discussed ravenously, and took off in the night to escape his imprisonment.
Out in the world at 19 he had no job or extensive education, and so pondered around for a while, half-starving, half-doing-odd-jobs. Then came his un/lucky break, for he managed to secure a job as a twine salesman. Popped fresh ‘n’ shiny in a suit the job came natural to him - it seemed he had a way of selling products to the customer that worked, even if it was by completely accidental and incompetent means. Fortunately, people like string (it’s an ever desired commodity!) and were taken in by his handsome face and innocent nature (also, customers were perhaps swayed by the fact that he was one of the few salesman on earth who actually believed in the product they were selling (Kiyo would often trail off mid pitch to sit there and play with the stuff, entranced)), and so he rose through the ranks to become Chief String Salesman and he was able to travel lots in order to sell twine - a dream come true indeed. He has humble aspirations of one day branching out into the yarn industry, but for now he returns to the Sohma household. Alas!
Relations: Saburo the wabbit and Rufus-Snoofus the ruppie. Uh.. All others are irrelevant? Naw, feel free to bug Kiyo!
Other:
1. An absolute technophobe, Kiyo blatantly refuses to try and understand how to work computers or walkmans or telephones, or to see the point in television.
2. He likes milk, meat and fish; warm places and fire. He has a head for heights and small spaces and is an expert napper. Sleeping barely four hours a night one may wonder how he remains so awake all the day long, and his sneaky secret is one that he does not keep secret whatsoever - in fact, Kiyo openly catnaps in a variety of public places, oft and without restraint.
3. Sometimes he is foolish enough to consume alcohol(namely the times when Rufus furtively slips liquor into his milk), and so consequentially gets blatheringly drunk. When he’s intoxicated, music kinda begins to makes sense . i.e. The beats start to get to him, and he will most likely do his drunken dance, which is the same for every genre of music under the sun, be it rap, classical, folk or popular music of any tempo. [Kiyo’s said dance involves shuffling his feet and moving his arms as if in a power-walking motion. He dances like your father would dance if he were on speed.] He is one funky cat ^_~
4. Otherwise music is meaningless nonsensical noise to him, and reading holds a similar weight - stationary words can simply not retain his interest - and though he enjoys and shows potential for contact sports, he usually loses sight of the game halfway through and ends up pouncing on/fighting with people like the fool that he is. Indeed, he’s a good fighter - wick, savage and instinctually feral.
5. Rain obscures his senses and puts him out somewhat, so in a similar league he keeps his showers short - just long enough to preserve his cleanliness an’ make himself smell dandy. He detests having wet hair. Other hates include citrus fruit and Shujouteki, who he hardly ever refers to by actual name (‘he’ or ‘it’ suffices instead).
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Name: Shujouteki Sohma
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Personality:
Bearing the full weight of the Sohma curse has been taxing physically on him, thus making Shujo incredibly aggressive and selfish. He has no shame for anything or anybody. Shujouteki almost seems to have split personalities; he shows what seems to be a soft side to people who don’t know him, but anyone who knows him for more than five minutes finds out just how violent and angry he is towards the rest of the Sohmas. Shujo usually needs restraining while he rants (which he does a lot,) else he hurts somebody, or himself (which, by the way, he never blames himself for.) The other Sohmas don’t know it, but the one of the reasons he’s so violent against the Sohmas is because he somewhat envies the fact that they can go on living while he has the short end of the stick. Shujo partly believes that by being horrible to them, they will remember him as he passes away. However, the other part of him doing it is simply because the curse is a huge strain on him, and he almost can’t help himself.
History:
He has had to bear the full weight of the Sohma curse since birth. Because of this, he is doomed to live a short lifespan. Shujouteki has spent nearly his entire life inside the main Sohma household, an ancient and enormous house that has been around for over two hundred years.
Appearance:
Here is a picture of Shujouteki. He has green hair, blue eyes, and a young yet sad complexion. His body is thin, and very obviously weakened, his walk is slow and straining. However weak he looks, he can still pitch a violent fit when needed; it’s almost a good thing he’s so weak, because otherwise it would be difficult to restrain him.
Other:
Even though Shujouteki is not one of the Zodiac, if he hugs a cursed female, she does not transform.
Shujouteki Sohma
Tokyo, winter. Christmas had just passed; it was now the morning of December 29th, 2006. Two more days until New Years. Despite the fact that the sun still hadn't risen, the city was alive. It was always moving, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, pumping out new writers, lawyers, actors, people of every color and career, at every single moment. It was the city of dreams, at least for big time businesses. New ideas for styles of cars, or how to fix economic troubles, were formed by ingenious people located at the top of giant skyscrapers hundreds of stories above sealevel. Everything was up to date in Tokyo.
Yet, somewhere in the rather large and busy city, was a house. Not just a house, no, but a mansion, hundreds of years old. This house was home to the never-ending, mysterious Sohma family. Rare was it for someone to enter the house; in fact, the closest anyone has ever gotten to it is the postman, who delivers the paper (and, on rare occasions, mail,) every morning to the front door.
The postman once described going to the house. First, he said, just getting to get past the front gate was taxing; the entire Sohma property is surrounded by a four-foot cement wall. He has to talk into a communicator next to the gate to be let inside. The grounds, he said, is amazing; there is a huge pond, and lots of ancient-looking statues of animals lining the walkway up to the front door. The house itself seems to split on the right and left, connected to either side by a small covered walkway. He once gathered the courage to ask if there were more parts behind the house, and the person who had answered the door responded, "Yes... many more." The postman hasn't been able to see much of the inside, but he said that, judging by what he saw through the doorway, the inside was fairly simple, yet very pretty in it's ancient beauty.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Shujouteki awoke, very suddenly. His body writhed in pain for a few seconds, and then finally the pain subsided. Shujo breathed hard; his pajamas were soaked in sweat, and his limbs were sore from the extreme stretching. Another bad night, though it was to be expected, with the New Year coming up. January 1st... to many, it meant simply celebrating a new year; to Shujouteki, it meant his birthday.
He lit the candle's by his bedside, and pulled out an old scroll. This year, he decided, he was going to have a birthday party. He'd had one for the past three years, but this year, he was going to invite all the members of the Zodiac. Shujouteki opened the scroll. It listed all of the members of the Zodiac, and where they currently resided:
Hisano Sohma- apartment (address here), with parents
Rufus Valerius Sohma, Amaya Sohma, and Matsuno Kaoru- apartment (address here)
Joushirou Sohma- no permanent residence.
Mizuki Sohma- apartment (address here), with her brother
Sohma House
Section 1- Zenshi Sohma, Mayumi Sohma, Yazaki Sohma
Section 2- Kaze Sohma, Ayato Sohma
Section 3- Saburo Sohma
Shujouteki grunted. "Why is Mizuki living alone? And she's only 13??" Anger bubbled inside of him. "She hates me... she doesn't want to be with me, I'm not good enough family for her." He crunched the parchment up in a ball and threw it away.