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Your Name/Alias: Mikage
Age: 22
Character: Fujiwara no Sai
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character Age: over 1000 but appears as a pretty, young man
Job: Ghost for the carnival Haunted House
Canon: “Hikaru no Go” follows Shindou Hikaru as he tries to catch his rival and become one of the best professional Go players. Go is a deceptively simple game where each player tries to surround the other’s pieces, or stones, with his own. Highly competitive, its fans take it as seriously as life or death- in Sai’s case, literally. Hikaru is introduced to Go when he is possessed by the ghost of Fujiwara no Sai, a young Heian nobleman who drowned himself after being framed for cheating during a crucial game. Hundreds of years later, Sai appears before Hikaru, still driven by his love of Go and a desire to play the perfect game: the Hand of God.
Sai is a master of Go, skilled both at playing and at drawing out the potential of challengers and students alike. As a teacher he can be harshly demanding or patiently kind as the situation requires, but those situations require Go. As befits a Heian nobleman, Sai is highly emotional and dramatic, and his personal barometer is how much Go he’s played: if refused a game, Sai becomes cranky and petulant, crying over how mean it is. But give him a game or show him something new and he will be all bright and cheery excitement. Beyond the game, Sai is sensitive and attentive, sympathetic to others’ troubles even when his own are ignored. Over the course of canon, Sai’s understanding develops, growing away from a spoilt attitude to a wiser view. And so he finally passes on, realizing that his role wasn’t to achieve the Hand of God himself, but to prepare and inspire Hikaru and the new generation of players.
Sample Post:
Ohh, woe is me...! After a thousand years, just when I had finally been sent on my way to my heavenly rest, I am sent back to this world! Of course I wanted to stay a little longer, though I had done all I could... but what did I do to deserve being made to haunt a place like this? I would be glad to haunt a Go club or even a student center, but there’s nothing here...! No Go at all! There are only cobwebs and some purple monkeys in costumes, and even if they are go-rillas, that is not enough!
There is more to Go than merely a name. It is passion, drive, and dedication. To face a challenger across the board is a battle like none other! But there can be none of this if you do not have a board or an opponent that knows how play...! So if this job title is all I am to be given, then it is this job title I will use. I will put the “Go” in “Ghost,” and teach the ghouls to be more, to be go-houls! No longer will they shamble around without real meaning to their lives, and rather than beg for their longed-for brains, I will have them develop their own.
For our boards we shall use lines scratched in the dust and for our stones we shall use... stones! Now you, you may have the honor of being my first pupil. Do not roll your eyes and shuffle your feet, come and sit! It is a privilege very few have had, and every one of my cherished students have become strong players in their own right. But if you will continue to groan at me, then I suppose I will have to make an example of you: I will sever your head from your body with my play, and you will—
AHH ahhhhhhhhhh it came off! I did not mean that so literally...! It really came off...!!
Your Name/Alias: Mikage
Age: 22
Character: Fujiwara no Sai
Series: Hikaru no Go
Character Age: over 1000 but appears as a pretty, young man
Job: Ghost for the carnival Haunted House
Canon: “Hikaru no Go” follows Shindou Hikaru as he tries to catch his rival and become one of the best professional Go players. Go is a deceptively simple game where each player tries to surround the other’s pieces, or stones, with his own. Highly competitive, its fans take it as seriously as life or death- in Sai’s case, literally. Hikaru is introduced to Go when he is possessed by the ghost of Fujiwara no Sai, a young Heian nobleman who drowned himself after being framed for cheating during a crucial game. Hundreds of years later, Sai appears before Hikaru, still driven by his love of Go and a desire to play the perfect game: the Hand of God.
Sai is a master of Go, skilled both at playing and at drawing out the potential of challengers and students alike. As a teacher he can be harshly demanding or patiently kind as the situation requires, but those situations require Go. As befits a Heian nobleman, Sai is highly emotional and dramatic, and his personal barometer is how much Go he’s played: if refused a game, Sai becomes cranky and petulant, crying over how mean it is. But give him a game or show him something new and he will be all bright and cheery excitement. Beyond the game, Sai is sensitive and attentive, sympathetic to others’ troubles even when his own are ignored. Over the course of canon, Sai’s understanding develops, growing away from a spoilt attitude to a wiser view. And so he finally passes on, realizing that his role wasn’t to achieve the Hand of God himself, but to prepare and inspire Hikaru and the new generation of players.
Sample Post:
Ohh, woe is me...! After a thousand years, just when I had finally been sent on my way to my heavenly rest, I am sent back to this world! Of course I wanted to stay a little longer, though I had done all I could... but what did I do to deserve being made to haunt a place like this? I would be glad to haunt a Go club or even a student center, but there’s nothing here...! No Go at all! There are only cobwebs and some purple monkeys in costumes, and even if they are go-rillas, that is not enough!
There is more to Go than merely a name. It is passion, drive, and dedication. To face a challenger across the board is a battle like none other! But there can be none of this if you do not have a board or an opponent that knows how play...! So if this job title is all I am to be given, then it is this job title I will use. I will put the “Go” in “Ghost,” and teach the ghouls to be more, to be go-houls! No longer will they shamble around without real meaning to their lives, and rather than beg for their longed-for brains, I will have them develop their own.
For our boards we shall use lines scratched in the dust and for our stones we shall use... stones! Now you, you may have the honor of being my first pupil. Do not roll your eyes and shuffle your feet, come and sit! It is a privilege very few have had, and every one of my cherished students have become strong players in their own right. But if you will continue to groan at me, then I suppose I will have to make an example of you: I will sever your head from your body with my play, and you will—
AHH ahhhhhhhhhh it came off! I did not mean that so literally...! It really came off...!!