ROUTE 666 APPLICATION

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Player: Chany
Contact: Okaamiii
Age: 27
Other Characters: N/A

Name: Yoichi Nagumo
Canon: Sakamoto Days
Canon Point: Chapter 142
Age: 27

Backstory: Wiki

Personality:

+Default emotional state and temperament:

Nagumo has a laid back and playful demeanour, to the point of annoying other people with how carefree he is. He is a trickster, relentlessly lying to disorientate other people, making jokes to hide his real feelings and playing pranks or taking bets when he’s bored. It’s a well-worn persona he uses as an assassin.
In actuality, his careless attitude is only half true. Nagumo feels deeply and strongly towards other people. He’s protective and loyal and can form strong connections. However, his job requires him to be apathetic, so Nagumo has to conceal these affections. As such, he often expresses this care in roundabout and obscure ways.

+ Motivations and goals:

Boredom: Nagumo is notably disinterested and indolent in most aspects of his life. While he comes from a lineage of assassins, he showed minimal interest in his studies, to the point of expulsion, despite his physical talent, and, even after becoming a high-class assassin, expresses limited care for his role outside of following orders. Nagumo is apathetic towards his long-term life and career, despite how successful he's become.

And it's this boredom for his life that ends up motivating him. Nagumo is attracted to new experiences, thrills and risk-taking, interesting and unique people, and creativity within his work. He carries a pair of dice in which he rolls during every job to determine what weapon he’ll kill someone with, and he often uses disguises to play on his target’s psyche.

Friendship: Surprisingly, Nagumo is especially protective over his friends. Even though he’s aloof and deceptive, he expresses great care for loved ones.
To date there are only two people Nagumo considered friends, Sakamoto and Rion. Time and time again Nagumo can be seen helping, tipping off, and going against orders, to the point of defecting, for Sakamoto’s sake. Additionally, Nagumo has spent his whole assassins career trying to clear Rion’s name after she died, having no qualms making underhanded deals and murdering for the sake of finding information about her death. His loyalty is unmatched, though never directly expressed.

+Regrets and fears:

Nagumo’s regret stems from when Rion was killed during a mission 8 years ago. He obsesses over his own mistakes, what he could have done better, and how he failed to protect her. When seeing Rion’s body, it’s one of the only times in the manga where Nagumo expresses genuine sadness and grief.
While Nagumo understands their line of work is deadly, he can’t emotionally reconcile her death, speaking to a softer underside of Nagumo’s character that he tries to hide. Even though the organisation wants them to be cruel killing machines, Nagumo can’t throw aside his care for other good people.
As a result, Nagumo is quick to protect and take the side of his only other remaining friend, Sakamoto. He’ll often act in irrational ways, where emotions take precedence, when Sakamoto is in danger, going against the organisation’s code to make sure he’s safe.

+Values: Protective. Loyal.

Nagumo is limited in moral codes as an assassin. He has no qualms killing, deceiving, or manipulating people for his job. However, Nagumo is particularly sensitive to protecting innocent and good people. He often laments that good people die early in his field of work and expresses sympathy for them. He’ll show mercy to people he emotionally resonates with and will never involve normal civilians in his jobs. When Sakamoto wanted out of being a hitman, Nagumo does everything in his power to ensure he can live a normal life. Nagumo is more concerned with preserving other people rather than himself.
Nagumo believes the best way to kill is to deceive people. However, he also expresses abhorring it. It appears Nagumo accepts he’s a bad person and will do bad things as a result, but values good traits, such as normalcy, innocence, idealism, selflessness, in other people.

Powers/Abilities:

> Master of Disguise: Nagumo can copy other people's appearances perfectly in an instant. He can also disguise others, including significantly altering someone's body shape. Disguises last up to 24 hours.
> Master Combatant: Nagumo's combat skills include everything with coordination and skill, making him a deadly combatant. He is extremely proficient with bladed weapons and use firearms with great proficiency. He ranked 4th place in the top 10 greatest shooters of all time at the JCC.
> Poison Immunity: Nagumo is very knowledgeable of how poison works and understands how to adapt to it.
> Enhanced Speed and Reflexes: Nagumo is capable of moving at extreme speeds, being fast enough to instantaneously disappear from a person’s sight.
> Enhanced Durability: Nagumo is incredibly resilient despite his skinny build. He remains completely unharmed after taking a hit from Gaku´s mace that sent him flying through multiple walls, a display airplane, and a car sculpture. Even after taking a point-blank ranged attack from Gaku's powerful laser mace that sent him crashing down to the ground with devastating force, Nagumo received only minor injuries.

Inventory:

> Pair of Dice

> Multi-Tool: Nagumo uses a large switchblade-like weapon that has six different functions
The weapons contained inside his large multi-tool weapon include:

 Two Blades
 Dagger
 Scythe
 Axe
 Invisible Blade

Game Plans: Long-term, I intend to explore the effects of other people’s suffering on Nagumo. How the combination of extreme scenarios in a drawn-out space of time, where he has time to develop friendships and attachments, will impact his sense of responsibility and resolve. If Nagumo will lean further into monstrous traits for others, ultimately destroying himself in the process, or find self-preservation.
As Nagumo is a trickster-type character, I’d love to lean into his more mischievous and risky behaviour, putting himself at odds with his own values with situations he inflicts on others. Where he draws the line or if he’s able to draw one. A whole load of psychological exploration.

Monster Choice:
Yokai – Nekomata
Fae – Fairy
Infernal – Cerberus

Vehicle Choice: Honda NSX with the FAST quality.

Sample: TDM