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OOC INFO;

NAME: Kia
AGE: 31
CONTACT: starswept
CHARACTERS IN GAME: Rion Kugayama (flyingsolos)

IC INFO;

CHARACTER NAME: Soujirou Seta
AGE: Unknown, but thought to be around 19-20
CANON: Log Horizon
CANON POINT: Volume 10
HISTORY: Here!
PERSONALITY: Soujirou is often described as a kind, gentle boy with a refreshing smile and a gentlemanly nature, as well as awkward and clumsy at times, which has naturally made him incredibly popular with women. His guild only has one other male, who's just as fond of him as the other female members are, and he even has an entirely different organization that's more or less his fan club. While he possesses some level of awareness that this is, indeed, a harem (shyly commenting to someone that he thought he'd be hated because of it), he largely seems to miss the fact that a lot of ladies are in love with them and just mostly ends up bemused and entertained by their antics. He's easily enthusiastic, and his boyish nature continues to draw girls to him.

For the most part, he's trusting-- maybe a little too trusting, to the point of gullibility (as evidenced when Shiroe ropes him into a cake-eating contest with his harem out of some mild form of spite and Soujirou happily thanks him later for the opportunity). Still, he also understands a lot of his own flaws. When asked to help, he agrees to do so immediately, and ruefully explains that he didn't ask for clarification first because he's too much of an idiot to get it. It's also pointed out several times in the light novels, both by other characters and by Soujirou himself, that he's a very simple and intuitive person who has a hard time explaining how he got from Point A to Point B but manages regardless. So long as the person instructing him is reliable ad trusted, Soujirou has no problem going along with being guided and just doing what he does best-- clearing a path and being incredibly straightforward.

Friendship is especially important to Soujirou. Friendship is what led him to quest with the Debauchery Tea Party and to remain with it when the friends who got him involved moved on. Friendship is what made him terribly lonely when the Tea Party disbanded and what prompted him to create a guild of his own, the West Wind Brigade, in an attempt to keep some of his friends close and foster new bonds. It's the answer he ultimately arrives to, when he finds himself wondering if he'd only created the guild to replace the Debauchery Tea Party and if he'd forcefully dragged a bunch of people into this lifestyle without thinking about what they really wanted. Even when he's in combat, what makes him happiest is having his friends nearby and understanding things that he normally couldn't as they fall into sync. To Soujirou, his friends are precious, and his guild is his beloved family.

That being said, he does have a darker side, and that comes with his fondness for his friends. If anyone hurts or threatens his "family", Soujirou very quickly becomes an entirely different person. No longer softly smiling and amicable, he instead becomes dark and vengeful, declaring a death sentence on the offender and becoming very difficult to reason with. This is largely in part because of his attitude towards women-- which is, overwhelmingly, that every girl must be treated with kindness and every girl must be protected. It doesn't matter which girl in particular, this has been his mindset for a very long time, and it's also why the only people who can truly guide him are two of the older males he looks up to in the game. It has nothing to do with his own sense of kindness. As Nazuna, one of his guildmates puts it, "Soujirou was kind to girls. It wasn't a virtue; it was one of his flaws, and it couldn't be corrected."

As of Volume 10, Soujirou is slowly changing his mindset, acknowledging that "girls are strong" and treasuring his friendships with the girls in his guild for what they are to him and not just because they're "girls he must protect". It's slow but steady progress.

... Also he is very combat-happy and will spring into a fight without requiring much notice, leaving the thinking to someone else and just focusing on his enjoyment of the world he's been stuck in. Overall, he's a good kid, but he does best with others to look out for him and people to fight alongside with.


CANON POWERS: As an Adventurer, Souji has enhanced strength, speed, and stamina and the ability to come back from death by being revived in a Cathedral (which won't exist here, so that takes care of that).

Class-wise, he's a Samurai, allowing him to chain several quick and powerful attacks together to earn himself an opening. His skills do require a longer cooldown than a lot of other classes, so he usually tends to keep his fights short.

A few of his skills mentioned are as follows:

- Whirlwind Slash
- Samurai Challenge
- Ranius Capture
- Vacuum Slash
- Whirlwind Vacuum Slash
- Helm Splitter (a spinning, head-on cleave attack)
- Lone Dash (a jumping technique)
- Fire-Wheel Sword (a striking attack)
- Instant Desertion (the user can completely avoid attacks for a short period of time)
- Sword of Gathering Clouds (able to cancel an attack and halve the damage)

Soujirou is also one of a few Adventurers who possesses an Overskill, which is a skill developed by a player that previously did not exist in Elder Tales when it was still a game. His Overskill is "Clairvoyance", a defensive skill that allows him to return or cancel an attack. According to Soujirou, it allows him to see "trajectories that run through the air" and he's able to deflect them.

OTHER: He has the incredible power to create harems and fan clubs around him without really even trying and also largely remaining oblivious to it.

GAME INFO;

CRAU INFO: N/A
MAGIC ABILITY: A literally blinding smile. By focusing on his smile, Soujirou can generate blinding white light from it. Gradually, it can be controlled to be useful in dark places, but starting out, it'll kick in when he's not even trying to activate it because of just how often he smiles. It won't work with any other expression.
ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: Sacred Sword Kogarasumaru-- it normally summons the incarnation of the blade to act as support, but obviously that will be nerfed, so here it will just be a katana that Soujirou worked his butt off to obtain. While he tends to dual-wield, he'll only have one sword here until he can obtain another elsewhere.
ANY PETS?: N/A

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