toku matsudaira, geezermancer (giri) wrote in emillionooc, @ 2013-10-20 23:11:00 |
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you say we're not responsible, but we are.
Hello, lovely citizens of Emillion! Hope you’re not too far gone in your cups for an intro post. This is Sonia, bringing in my fourth (and I was concerned about making a second three months ago, ahahahaha) and the ultimate oldie. This is Toku Matsudaira, Geomancer and third member of the Mages’ Guild Council. He’s also 54-years-old, thus putting an end to Julie’s brief reign. #sorrynotsorry
Toku hails from Sako Island, in Ordalia, though he left his home at a very young age to pursue a study of magic in Emillion. His first class was Blue Mage, but due to an injury in the field (which still gives him trouble, especially now he’s getting on in years) he could no longer go out and learn new abilities from monsters, so he switched to Time Mage. After that, it was Black Mage and, for a few years, he mentored Peony when she arrived in Emillion. He finally changed his class to Geomancer over a decade ago, feeling that the concept of drawing energy from nature connected with his worldview. Hasn’t looked back since.
As for his personality, he’s a man overly concerned with formality, and what is “proper”. He believes that the good of the many should always take precedence over individual desires. He has a strong sense of duty to society, and to his Guild in particular, which would lead him to make sacrifices if he believed it was for the greater good. He doesn’t deal well with feelings, and often lets the important things go unsaid, simply because he believes they’re obvious from the context, or they don’t need to be said. That said, though he is terrible at expressing his feelings, he’s nowhere near dead inside. You can’t see it on his face, but he feels things very deeply. He’s a deeply spiritual man who takes refuge in meditation and the outdoors to dull the regrets he carries with him.
His was an arranged marriage; he went through with it because he felt it was the right thing to do, as his family expected such from him, though he did not love his wife. What nobody knows is that he was at the time in love with Vivian Xi (still is, a little) though this was one-sided (he never spoke to her about it, at least, and even now, he wonders sometimes what would have happened if he had). He grew fond of his wife over time, and holds her in great regard, but it is a different kind of love. They had one daughter, Kiyoko (written as “pure child”), who some years ago left home to join a cult, claiming she had always craved connections to other people, and she had found them there. Though it breaks his heart, Toku has cut off all contact with his daughter, hoping that by rejecting her she will see the error of her ways and come back. Because of his choice, he and his wife grew distant and now they live separately; they meet every once in a while, and Toku never knows what to say to her.
He made Council quite some time ago, but took a two-year leave to return to Sako Island and care for his parents. Both have passed away, and so now he’s back in Emillion, has taken his former position again, and is determined to do well by the only family he has left: the Mages’ Guild.
You can read his app here.
Plot ideas:
-- Magic discussion/helping bbs (be aware that he’ll be extremely strict, and will probably be proud of his students but never say it out loud)
-- Plot with other oldies
-- Council things!
-- Trying to convert Peony/other mages to Geomancy (because it’s so much better than other kinds of magic)
-- Ordalians? Rin, I’m looking at you.
-- Learning to open up to others, little by little.
TOSS ANY PLOT IDEAS YOU HAVE MY WAY! ♥ ♥