Post by Felix Falora on Sept 13, 2008 20:51:04 GMT -5
Introduction
Now, like I did for my Suikoden RP, which got deleted, though I can't say much because it would be hard to RP something like that with so many characters anyway, I will explain what Fruits Basket is.
Fruits Basket is a manga created by Natsuki Takaya. The main character is Tohru Honda, who was recently orphened due to her father dying of pneumonia and her mother dying in an accident. Yet when she is taken in by her grandfather, he is redoing his place, so she offers to stay at a friend's house. It was a lie and she ended up sleeping in a tent on Sohma land instead. The Sohmas are a wealthy family, a powerful family, but they are also a cursed family. 13 children are born cursed by the vengeful spirits of the Chinese Zodiac and 1 is to be their God. When I say 13, even though there are only 12, I say this because one is born the cat. Legend has it that God invited the animals to a banquet and the rat tricked the cat into believing it was the day after the actual date, so the cat never showed up and was not included. She is found in the tent by Yuki Sohma, the Prince of their school and with a girls fanclub to boot, and yet he has self-esteem issues and a self-hatred of himself. He takes her in, feeling sorry for her, and then the cat, Kyo Sohma, bursts in, wanting to beat Yuki. But, due to an accident, Tohru ends up finding out what they are. She does not come to reject them... on the contrary, she wishes to remain their friends and promises to keep their secret. The story revolves around Tohru meeting the other members of the Chinese Zodiac and eventually they all search for a way to break the curse. The curse is that... if the members of the Zodiac get worn out or if they are hugged by members of the opposite sex, they will turn into their respective animals.
Setting
This will be after manga 3, meaning there will only be characters I know of at the current moment in the RP. The area is in Japan, but it can be anywhere in Japan. The Highschool is known as Kaibara Highschool and is known for having a strict guideline of rules, though the Sohmas seem to get out of them often.
Canon Characters
Tohru Honda
Age 16
She's a very nice girl with a very big heart. However, she's also a bit ditzy. She's suffered the loss of both of her parents, her father dying from pneumonia and her mother dying in an accident, but she's stayed happy through it all. Her friends, Uo and Hana, think she might've scolded herself anytime she would get depressed. She was taken in by the Sohmas after her tent was destroyed in a landslide at the price of becoming their housemaid. She's the only one outside the Sohma family who knows about the curse and she'll take that secret to the grave. She has a crush on Kyo, but is too shy to tell him.
Yuki Sohma
Age: 16
Yuki is the rat of the Chinese Zodiac. He's an intelligent, attractive, successful man. He's known as "Prince Yuki" among fangirls in the school and people often pressure him into becoming the next school president. However, Yuki has self-esteem issues. He does not like himself and could hardly find anything to like about himself before Tohru came into his life. Tohru is like a mother to him. He was mentally and emotionally scared by Akito, the current Sohma head, and was isolated, locked away in a dark room. He wants to have friends, but is too afraid of being revealed. Tohru has helped him have exactly what he wants, a friend.
Kyo Sohma
Age 16
Kyo is the cat in the legend. He hates Yuki and wants to beat him in a fight. The reason is that Akito made a bet with Kyo that if he could beat Yuki, he could be put in the Chinese Zodiac. Kyo has been shunned and scorned by many of the Chinese Zodiac for being the cat. His mother died giving birth to him and his father hated him for it. Kyo was adopted by a teacher of a martial arts dojo. It was here Kyo came to love martial arts. Kyo is short-tempered, arrogant, and pretty much an asshole around people other then Tohru, though he is charismatic for some reason, able to interact with people. Around Tohru, he becomes softer. He has feelings for her and would protect her from anything.
Shigure Sohma
Age 27
Shigure is the dog of the Chinese Zodiac. He is the one closest to Akito and he is a very cunning, manipulative person. However, he plays dumb and ignorant. He is very perverted, his favorite thing being high-school girls, and Yuki and Kyo even try to keep Tohru under their supervision so that "that damn pervert doesn't do anything to her." He is a novelist, successful at that, of romance novels. He likes to tease his poor editor, however, so that she sometimes nearly kills herself.
Kagura Sohma
Age 18
Kagura is the boar of the Chinese Zodiac. She has a split personality and, when she shifts, she cannot remember what she does in her other personality. Her first personality is nice and caring, but her other personality is a bit violent, even though it's supposedly out of love. She claims to be in love with Kyo and shows it by kicking his poor butt all over the place. She's also supposedly engaged to him, but it's fake. She threatened the poor boy with a knife.
Momiji Sohma
Age 15
MOMIJI!... *cough cough* Sorry. Momiji is the rabbit of the Chinese Zodiac. He is a childish individual with a sunny demeanor. This hides a very tragic past, however. His mother, having seen him in his rabbit form, neglected him, was angry at him, abused him, and chose to forget him, saying her greatest regret was "that that creature came out of my body." Momiji, however, thinks no memories should be forgotten. He is a playful individual and chooses to wear the girl's uniform because it looks better on him... AND IT DOES TOO, SO BACK OFF BITCHES!
Hatori Sohma
Age 27
Hatori is the dragon of the Chinese Zodiac. He turns into a seahorse, however... He is a doctor and a very serious individual. He has the power to erase people's memories and uses it when outsiders discover the Sohma curse. He was once engaged to a woman named Kana, but Akito got so angry that he blinded Hatori in his left eye for a while. Kana found it her fault and asked Hatori to erase her memories, claiming it might not have been so good for them to have met after all. He is rarely amused by the antics of his friends, Shigure and Ayame (who will not be allowed usage unless begging happens), but he does enjoy them despite that.
Hatsuharu Sohma
Age 15
Hatsuharu is the ox of the Chinese Zodiac. He turns into a cow, though... 0.0 Anyway, like Kagura, he has a split personality, but he retains memories of what he does in both forms. In his white form, he is the nicest individual you could ever come to meet, but in his black form, he will whip your ass and not give a damn afterwords. He does have a heart in black form though and he can be a little relentless in white form. He has the worst sense of direction in the world and got lost for three days looking for Shigure's house.
Arisa Uotani
Age 16
Known as Uo for short, she is a former gang member and is often referred to as a yankee. Uo is one of Tohru's best friends and is protective of her. She promised to the grave of Tohru's mother, the mother's spirit in a sense, that she would protect Tohru with her life. And so she has. She sometimes threatens the Yuki fangirls with an iron pipe when they try to attack her. She idolized Kyoko, Tohru's mother, who used to be a gang leader, but when Kyoko left the gang life to be a mother, she helped Uo escape from her gang life.
Saki Hanajima
Age 16
Known as Hana, she is a psychic who can sense auras and send out waves of her own. Hana is Tohru's other best friends and she, too, is protective of Tohru. She also promised to Kyoko's grave she would protect Tohru. She scares the Yuki fangirls more then Uo does. One of them even said, "Uo may be a yankee, but she is still human, so there are ways to fight her. Hanajima, however, is something entire non-human!" Hana used to be unable to control her powers and blamed herself when a bully collapsed, but Tohru accepted her then like she does the Sohmas now and helped her learn to control them, so Hana may feel she owes Tohru her life in a sense.
