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Multiple Settings TROUBLESHOOTING. . . [APPS]

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#monster-hunting
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GENERAL GUIDELINES-
• All characters should be vaguely between the ages of 21-35. (Here, we can suspend our disbelief about high-ranking youth, alright?) *The Changeling will not need a known age, but should appear to be between these ages.
• Illustrated faceclaims only
• As a reminder, our setting is modern day Tokyo.

Applications should include:
• Name and role
• Faceclaim
• Brief overview of both personality and backstory; Basically, you're just pitching the character, so don't worry too hard about getting into details. A few paragraphs will be fine.
(I've left my CS as an application to provide a little bit of a model.)

I'll review applications as they're submitted, and should DM you with feedback and a discord link upon approval. Once an application has been accepted, you'll complete a slightly more detailed CS including:
• More detailed personal info (name, age, role, pronouns, etc)
• Personality description
• Background/history overview (no need to get too far in the weeds, but let us know how they got here!)
• Anything else you'd like to add!

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branch leader
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Who would’ve dreamed that after training for years to join the highest ranks of government intelligence, you’d end up in charge of such a critical office while still barely making ends meet? The luster of being trusted with top-secret intel has likely been long lost for the branch leader. Still, they're the one in charge of the Troubleshooters branch, and the fate of the city sort of rests in their hands. They do their due diligence to keep the place somewhat under control.
secretary
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Even monster hunters need someone to get the paperwork done! The secretary is rarely the one getting their hands dirty, but those hands are more than cramped from pushing papers. They're given access to all reports of Trouble activity, and are often the one making calls and assignments when the branch leader can't be reached. (And yes, they're still issued a weapon for good measure.)
head researcher
taken
1/1
It's rare for a U.T.C.U. researcher to ever cross paths with field officers. However, this researcher has been pushing for an experimental program involving a certain Changeling specimen, and it's finally been approved under one condition: The researcher must always be present at the branch to oversee the Changeling's behavior. Because of this, they've become an unexpected part of the team.
newbie contractors
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Waltzing in for a job interview with no idea of the stakes led to signing contracts and strict NDAs, and now, after only a two week orientation, these two are fighting Troubles. Maybe there's something to be said for the bright-eyed dedication of a new recruit. But, it's just as likely that their only hope of survival will be sticking as close to the older officers as possible.
veteran contractors
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It can be fun for the experienced officers to see themselves in the new recruits. Of course, any naivete surrounding the job has to be gone by now for these two. It takes a rare skill to survive in this job for as long as they have; It's a commitment that they really should be getting paid more for.
changeling
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Chosen directly by the head researcher, this Changeling is meant to be a model case for an experimental new program: Using weaker Changelings who show near-human qualities to fight other Troubles. This Changeling lives off only blood bags, and has shown no signs of true bloodthirst towards humanity since their capture in the lab. There's no promising that their new coworkers are going to trust that, though.


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When Rio first showed an interest in medical research, her parents were ecstatic. She had always been an odd child, taking interest in all things horrific and supernatural, so for her to find an interest in a respectable and normal career path was a relief for them both. For the rest of her youth, they stopped at nothing to foster that interest further, and Rio devoured every source of medical and biological science that she could.

It was soon after receiving her medical degree that a strange government recruitment offer found its way to her. Though she never ended up as a practicing doctor like her parents hoped, to hear the news of her taking such an important position made them over the moon. Finally, proof that their daughter was alright!

Of course, if they'd known the real subject of her research, they might've been less inclined to celebrate. There was no better fit for the U.T.C.U. than Rio Miyano, though. She'd been close to growing bored of regular medical science; To be given a chance to research and dissect monsters? It felt like a childhood dream come true. Though she'd grown up quite a bit, Rio never totally lost her creepy reputation; As a child, she was the one scaring her classmates with ghost stories, and the graduation to gruesome medical facts was hardly any different. Rio's joy in the face of the unknown was almost childlike, and she never would've been happy with a totally mundane life.

Rio might've shown more enthusiasm for the task than her commanding officers expected. Even fellow coworkers referred to her as a mad scientist, with the joy she took in what was purely clinical to the rest. It's her work that's driven almost all recent U.T.C.U. breakthroughs, but it's also her persistence that's worn down her superiors into finally accepting the Changeling utilization plan that she's refused to drop. That acceptance may just be a gambit to get her to quiet down and step away from the lab, but Rio has no complaints about her recent shift in responsibility. Field research is just another dream come true!









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name | andô ikue
role | secretary

brief overview | A newbie contractor only recently reassigned to her current secretary position. Veteran contractors may remember the circumstances in which the old secretary was relieved, but Ikue's never bothered in asking. The girl takes to the role as though she's been in it for years & stuns her colleagues when her newness shows, like when she asks where the staples are.

Ikue's assignment to the U.T.C.U. was a complete accident, as she was originally approved to work as an administrative assistant within a criminal investigation division of the government. When her first day came around, she instead mistakenly received the directions of the recently relocated U.T.C.U. When she showed up, all bright-eyed & eager for her new desk job, she was mistaken as a new contractor & underwent a hasty orientation that left her utterly confused. Though she desperately tried to appeal her transfer, she accepted her fate when she eventually heard word of her original position having been filled. She was doomed to troubleshoot.

Top of her class back in school, she felt a little overqualified to be a field dog for this hell division. She took to the field well-enough, but by no means working to strengths she'd studied so hard for. When the secretary position opened up, she didn't even leave the branch leader an option; she just handed them their next mission debrief one day, along with her promotion request in writing. Without hiring externally, there weren't many troubleshooters who'd relegate themselves to a life of pencil pushing.

As a contractor, she was never the most athletic or disciplined when it came to trouble hunting. Talking was always her strong suit; her strengths tended to lie behind the scenes in her memory or administrative tendencies.

In personality, she's a complete, unwavering hardass. Her demeanor belongs to that of a battle-hardened woman in her 40s. After her accidental assignment, she's grown rather comfortable with the office's small group of employees; she's not above treating elders as equals, senior only in address. A natural in working people, Ikue knows exactly when to flatter & when to humble in order to get her way. Though, worry not, her "getting her way" tends to be inoffensive requests, like getting approval in placing orders for cuter office supplies.

If she were the malicious type, her cunning might raise some flags but luckily she's just looking for a cushy office job to get her parents off her back. & fund her reckless spending.
 
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in a world brimming with countless unknowns, there is one thing that xinyi is a firm believer of: to be a contractor as long as she has been, one must either be extremely unfortunate or one must undoubtedly have a few screws loose in their head. regarding herself, xinyi does not deny either, but leans towards the former. during the period of china’s one-child policy, xinyi was abandoned by her parents and briefly housed in an underfunded orphanage within the city. she knows nothing of where she was born, nothing of her mother or father, and yet she supposes she still has a family of sorts.

her family is one forged not from blood but bonds. growing up in an underfunded orphanage, it would’ve been unreasonable to expect every need and want to be catered to. as such, xinyi learned to become quite resourceful, if not a little bit ruthless in order to survive. of course, there were exceptions — often younger children who she couldn’t help but pity and empathize with. one of which was a meek little girl named jiaqi who often got teased by the bigger kids. following an instance of scaring jiaqi's bullies away, jiaqi grew an attachment to xinyi, who didn't have the heart to tell the poor kid to go away. from jiaqi came several other kids who came scrambling to xinyi any time they needed help. xinyi quickly grew attached to the kids, becoming something of an older sister figure to those at the orphanage.

needless to say, it was rough when xinyi finally turned eighteen and no longer had to stay at the orphanage. a part of her knew she needed her independence, but another fraction of her didn't want to leave anyone behind. without the proper finances, she promised jiaqi that she'd try to get her out of the orphanage at a later time and support the other kids as much as she could. it's a promise she still has yet to break.

after all, xinyi understands what it's like to have nobody, so she wants to be somebody for the kids. and what was one way to do that? to make money and provide as much as she could for them. xinyi never wanted to be a contractor in particular. however, given her background, it seemed like the quickest way to earn some money. each time she received her paycheck, she'd come back to the orphanage and buy or pay for any expenses the kids needed. following years of this cycle, xinyi transferred from the chinese branch to the japanese branch purely because of increased benefits and salary; however, she still sends money and letters back to china. xinyi has been commited to working as a contractor, if only to earn her paycheck and give back to those who are waiting and depending on her.

to those who meet xinyi at work, it seems as though she has not only signed an nda regarding her job, but her entire life. she's an uninteligible book to read and the toughest nut to crack. people would describe her as quiet and seemingly aloof. she doesn't smile very much and doesn't share many details about herself. some consider her a bit intimidating because of a combination of her stature, silence, and her impassive appearance, but that's actually not true. xinyi is very soft-hearted. she deeply cares for other people and those who have worked alongside her have come to find that she has a self-sacrifical attitude. she is hardworking to the point of exhaustion and rarely seems to prioritize herself or her own feelings. she has a soft spot for newbies and protecting those she deems unable to properly help themselves. whether it be at the orphanage or at the office, it seems she has always taken on a guiding, nurturing role for the people around her.









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The Clandestine Rookie | Alastair "Al" Emilio


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Psych Evaluation :
Al is an acute individual; not one to make too many friends on the job. He likes to get things done quickly, simply and by the book. Acting more the veteran than some of his older colleagues, his attitude certainly doesn't reflect his age. Practical, straight-forward and loyal-to-a-fault, he tends to think with his head more than his heart and is prone to throwing himself head-first into danger so long as it means doing his duty. If nothing else, he is reliable and brave in the face of a grim fate. He has seen horror already, and there is little of the human world that will phase him now.

Historical Records :
His early life was fairly typical - he'd go to school, play with his friends and study, come home to his family and live as peaceful a life as one could hope for. The threat of Troubles had never been a frequent problem in his area, their neighbours used to the occasional evacuation. One day, Al's family home was attacked by a violent group of chimeras led by a sinister changeling. They stood no chance. Bloody, wounded and in shock from having witnessed the murders of his family, Al's last memory of his home was the inhuman grin that stretched across the face of the changeling slowly approaching him...

Years passed. Al had recently become an adult, but the dull ache of his past had not eased with time. Embering with a tempered hatred for the monsters that invaded Earth, Al officially joined the U.T.C.U. to make a difference in the safeguarding of humanity. No more would innocent children go through the hell he had experienced that day.


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'Newbie Contractor'
Yukidoh Satoru
Personality: Yukidoh is very much a people person. The type of person who can go out to a bar alone and by the end of the night, leave with a new group of friends and a women under his arm if he is lucky enough. Because of his military background, he is fairly confident in his own abilities and isn't afraid to call people out on their bullshit. With that being said, he is very much that friend who will jump into a dangerous situation with you and only telling you how stupid it was after surviving it.

backstory: Mundane is the word to use when describing Yukidoh's early life. He was born into a normal family, went to normal schools, had normal friends, and over all just a normal teenager life, complete with sports and girls. Deciding on a whim to join the military just to break the monotony.


His time in the military wasn't something to write home about, however he did display some skills on both long and mid range weaponry scoring top three nearly every time he was on the weapon range. Although his battle tactics wasn't on par with his shooting he was a team player and described as someone you would want by your side in a shoot out.

Everything changed when his unit, who was assigned to protect a small rural town, was suddenly attacked. He witnessed first hand the bloodlust as both soldiers and civilians were ripped to pieces. He was the only one who managed to escape but his battle didn't end there. When he got to base he was questioned by the higher ups and upon asking too many questions, was jailed. A month later, a representative of the U.T.C.U visited his cell and offered him a position in a specialized unit and in turn his freedom...how could he refuse?
 
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After trying his luck at the other side of the law, working very much illegal odd jobs in exchange for scraps and tiring of it, Arima Sato decided to turn a new leaf. He ended up joining the U.T.C.U on a whim, in hopes of finding purpose in life —a rather abstract concept for which people have questioned his sanity— and maybe gaining a stable income so he can spend it on delicious food along the way —something slightly more understandable—. As someone with a rough history hiding behind a sunny, always-eager-to-please disposition, Sato is a twenty-three year old whose opinion on the value of life change every other day and who has no notable interpersonal connections that might get in the way of the job. No one would miss him if he was gone.

Apparently, the troubleshooters saw something worthwhile yet dispensable enough in him, qualities which indicated an ideal person for this sort of career, and hired him without much preamble. He still isn't sure if they purposefully disregarded his controversial records and misdeeds, but oh well, it worked out for both parties.

Coming from a monetarily humble background and having been raised by questionable, infamous individuals with notorious feuds against the Japanese government that rival the Yakuza, Sato knows the ins and outs of the Tokyoite society and how to survive in it without having to depend on anyone. Though inherently naive, innocent and a bit too hopeful due to his age, the young man has a certain survivalist instinct and experience with stacking the odds in his favor by either lying, manipulating or making use of all resources at hand, that give him leverage in this dangerous world.

He's effectively what some less-than-nice people would call "street rat", but Sato would eventually win said people over with his fresh, youthful charisma and flattery skills. While poor, mischievous and just a bit insane, Sato also likes to showcase himself as friendly, polite and enthusiastic. A nice junior whom you could get along if this were a normal office job.

Still, old habits die hard and Sato has been fighting by and for himself since the beginning. He's never had anyone rely on him before. Can a so-called street rat really become part of the team? Can he make it far in this trouble-ridden environment? He's always had the tendency of running away when things get difficult.

Who knows, Sato doesn't believe in second-guessing.









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Those of academic standing often speak of 'purpose'; of having a goal beyond the present. For this creature, there was no purpose, no higher imperative to answer to. At one point, it was nothing. By the next, it was something. Surrounded by a verdant jungle, suffocating the very land that housed it. Endless green and dry land. Of course, it wasn't that all the time. As it moved, it encountered obstacles unlike any other. Colorful and wide cylinders with pronounced indentations. Hard yet soft mountains that it could only give berth to.

It was then, that it encountered a new obstacle. A barricade that even it could not maneuver around. While there had been no drive for survival, there suddenly existed a finish line. It erupted from consciousness and gave birth to a delegation. Climb. Scale the barricade. Keep moving. There was no question of whether or not to abide by these newly-inscribed scripture, so it abided. Even without the ability to rationalize thoughts or sequence plans, it knew that going over this last hurdle, it would achieve its goal. Every motion contributed to an ascension, an apotheosis. However, to reach this peak, it had to chart its path. A viscous liquid secreted from crevices deep in the crust. It foiled many of its attempts. But, after many failures, it charted the optimal path. And so, it had arrived. There was no fanfare nor celebration to be had.

Soon came its second delegation. Dig. Break the mountain's crust and tunnel inside.

What else to do? There certainly wasn't much else it could do. Now descending, it tunneled past the spindly roots and further through the bedrock until it arrived at its cushy interior. Before it could even explore its new environment, its third and final delegation came. Invade. Conquer. Reform. It did not know what that meant, not until it got lost in the folds did it truly know what it meant.

From wanderer to fixer, its role had now changed. No longer did it need to move, it needed only to survey and assess. This body was sub-optimal. It would do, if only for as long as it could keep it alive. Time was irrelevant, yet it felt as though its life has slowed to a crawl.

Then it came, it became aware of itself. From its core stretched four spindly creatures, each with five wiggly children.

As it underwent its revelation, something flashed in the folds. A spark. From its humble start, it did not have autonomy or thought. But now, it could think and imagine. It came to it like a flood, customs and rituals, standards and behaviors, as if these concepts had been etched into its consciousness since childhood. In this haze, a light breached the fog.

For the first time in its life, it knew what it was.

And it also knew how he died.









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Kailani Takahashi ִ . ࣪✮ ‧₊˚

gender: she/her ; ethnicity: half japanese, half hawaiian
age: 22 ; height: 5'4"
body type: pear ; mbti: esfp
role: secretary



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Kailani has always had a taste for passion and pleasure, often throwing her responsibilities to the wayside in lieu of partying with her friends, smoking pakalolo, and drinking green bottles. Spending her hanabata days in Hawaii, she was well known in her town for her troublesome but carefree behavior, which garnered cautious vigilance from her elders and a mixed bag of popularity from her peers. In fact, it was in her later days of teenagehood where her rebellious behavior grew precedence before anything else in her life, which eventually forced her parents to relocate her family to Japan in an effort to set her behavior straight.

Kailani graduated (by a miracle, and a lot of parental advising) at the bottom of her senior class, but her hyperactive streak didn't end there. Well throughout college, she had also stuck to her party animal tendencies. Dancing on bar tops, screaming at the top of her lungs, and jumping over rooftops to escape the authorities— it was impossible for her to fly under the radar. At some point, her bad habit would have to die hard when a Changeling Calamity snuck into one of her friend's raves, charming people left and right before feasting upon their flesh in private rooms. Kailani, the host, and a couple of their mutual friends were busted by the cops at the underground rave, and she was finally sentenced with 10,000 hours of community service for illicit drug use, evading the authorities, and being an accomplice for setting up the illegal rave in a restricted area. The Calamity tragedy eventually broke up Kailani's old friend group, forcing her to reevaluate what she should really do with her life.

In court, the judge advised Kailani to finish her community service hours under government organizations as to "not sully her reputation any further". Reluctantly agreeing to her fate, she hopped from libraries, to post offices, to cafeterias, and eventually landed herself with the U.T.C.U when she realized her community service could also be done under office labor. She applied for the position, knowing she wouldn't be paid, but she preferred the possible position over serving ungrateful teenagers at highschools, or cleaning god awful public restrooms. Thankfully, she was accepted into the U.T.C.U unit with open arms (and a lot of NDAs). Here's to hoping she doesn't wreak more havoc and fall back into her old ways.



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Name: Kei Hino
Role: Branch Leader
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Overview
Simply put, Kei’s mother was not human.
A changeling under the guise of a human.

What many considered supernatural appeared as simply natural to Kei. cockroaches, chimeras, and especially changelings were all a part of her arduous upbringing. On weekends, she received plenty of training to mold her into the peak of humanity; whether that be honing her problem-solving by simply acquiring an item placed in a nest of cockroaches or pushing her body to its limits by simply running through the wild from a chimera. Those never scared her as chameleon training, the act of simply miming any human emotion without fail. Mother-daughter bonding at its finest, they made faces together for hours.

It may be the reason she always knows a changeling from a human, or perhaps it’s simply a part of her inheritance.
Of course, no matter how close she came to death she was never allowed to meet it. If her mother had to bail her out, she received punishment. A common thread in her life.

Anything less than a perfect test score she simply received punishment.
Anything less than a first-place trophy she simply received punishment.
Anything less than absolute popularity she simply received punishment.
Showing true emotion received punishment.
Though she never understood why, the sole purpose for her life was made clear to her from day one. To be perfect, to be a superior human. Around her mother, she behaved as meek as a mouse, but around other humans, she felt boundless confidence. Extravagant and gaudy, she never failed to brag upon receiving the chance or manipulate a group to worship here; they were all so simple.

By her final year of high school, even the brightest stars seemed dull by comparison. Class president, top grades, and prime athlete, it all seemed simple compared to pleasing her mother. She looked down on humans, struggling to believe she was even the same as them at times and when she finally killed her mother, she never had to look up again.

When U.T.C.U. approached her, and she received an ultimatum. Join them, or join her mother.

Becoming a branch leader was so simple.
 
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I heard she was found in an alleyway,” a man, tall and dark, whispered, leaning into his coworker's ear. “She was covered in blood, just surrounded by those damned cockroaches.

A shudder ran through them both, as if chilled by an internal gust of wind. “They were dead, but she just kept bashing them all in… Bill said they had to sedate her, couldn’t get her to calm down.

The woman shook her head, elbowing her gossip of a coworker in the ribs as the new contractor finally passed by. “Leave the girl alone won’t you?” She said lowly, “Those bodies they found there, she knew them. I think…


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Most of Nana’s personality is rather surface-level. Polite, hardworking, empathetic. Busy, non-confrontational, distracted. It doesn’t matter which trait surfaces, it can all feel a little… forced. She avoids personal questions like the plague. Eyes land on her and she forces a smile. Nana has grown comfortable in this outer shell, wishing desperately to be the person she was two weeks ago. Despite this overtly people-pleasing exterior, Nana tends to spend a lot of time alone, completing tasks to keep busy.


It’s almost as if Nana is in a play. She puts on a show, not only for those around her, but for herself. It’s always been this way, but now it is different. It feels like she is avoiding this new being she is becoming, as if she can be her old self so long as she denies the changes she feels. Every thought and feeling that begins to feel like too much gets pushed down and away until she can no longer handle it. Nana will push away the feelings as long as she can. As if she is afraid of simply feeling. Until eventually every ounce of hurt and anger causes her to shut down. A switch seems to flip, from a girl consumed by feeling, to all visible humanity washing away.


This silent, murderous rage is the reason the U.T.C.U found it fit to hire her. Her ability to shut off all other emotions got things done-- in fact, it saved her life. During her training they would induce some of this rage, attempting to help her channel and control it. They'd push her just to break her. As soon as she was seriously threatened, as emotions got high and overwhelming, is when her psyche seemed to shatter. The results were good for the killing of Troubles, but it was clear that if they let her, she would fight until every bone in her body shattered, every muscle tore. The personality flip was a bit unnerving for onlookers, from friendly to a beast of her own making, consumed by a quiet fury. Just a look could chill those who saw her to the bone. After each fight, she’d become a shell, quiet and hollow.

Nana is afraid of this switch. Afraid of this rage, of these feelings. It is a daily fight to be the girl she was and not the monster she feels herself becoming.

It is an endless cycle of pain, regret, and internalization. All she can do is wait until her old self fully crumbles away.

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Nanao never wanted this life for herself. This fight was not hers. All she wanted was a normal life for herself. Friends, college, a job that wouldn’t get her killed. While rumors of monsters and murder flowed through Tokyo, none of it was really her problem. Until it was. And now that it is, Nanao will do everything in her power to halt this onslaught of beasts. Even if it kills her.

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Name: Zahia (Zee) Saif
Role: The (Very Reluctant) Veteran

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My phone buzzed on the bartop. I looked down at the number, and decided to let it ring. I didn't want to talk to them, and besides, my hands were full. I hefted the case of heavy bottles onto the counter behind the bar, cold glass sweating in the autumn humidity, and pulled the flaps of the cardboard crate open. Outside, secondhand sunlight reflected from the taller buildings on the street and threw shafts of dirty golden light through the street-level windows. Later, the doors would open, and I'd have to let the world in. But for now, I could pretend like I'd found a little serenity. Or I could, until the phone buzzed again.

I glared at the little glass rectangle, and turned away with a groan. With both hands, I pulled dark brown bottles from the crate and started tucking them into the fridge behind me, kneeling to push them to the back. The glass clinked and the cold, smooth feeling felt wonderful against my hands, always fever-hot now, and I admit I took a little more time than strictly necessary arranging the bottles. Maybe I was avoiding looking back at the phone, even though it fell silent again well before I stood up. Call it cowardice, if you like.

I was halfway through checking inventory of the liquor bottles when the phone rang again, and this time I decided not to stop myself. I slapped my hand over the screen, scraped it across the bar, and jabbed the answer button, leaving the call on speaker.

"Fuck off," I spat, then jammed my thumb on the disconnect icon.

On cue, it rang again.

"I don't appreciate the fact that you have this number," I said after stabbing the call open.

"You do run the bar where we all drink," came the voice on the other end of the line, their tone mild.

"And all that means is that I've figured out to keep you guys paying my rent," I said, "What the fuck do you want?"

"What the fuck you do want, Director," this time with more than a little smugness.

"I don't work for you anymore," I said, "So I'll dispense with the honorifics. Now, unless you want to see how much of your precious time can be taken up by pressing the redial button, what, the fuck, do you want?"

"I have someone that makes the calls for me," they said, their voice infuriatingly calm, "I only get notified when you actually pick up."

"So you're just going to keep wasting my time." I left the phone call open, and walked away.

A few minutes later I came back, lifting another pair of crates onto the bar with a clatter of glass. I started taking tall bottles of liquor out, compared them against a stock sheet, and slid them into place behind the bar.

"You're also low on the Yamazaki 18," the voice said, "You know that's my favorite."

"Oh wow, you're right, I hadn't noticed," I said, my voice heavy with sarcasm, "Maybe when I run out, you'll finally stop coming here."

"Don't worry, I've had a case sent over. You'll be fine." I was about to open my mouth when they continued, "Back door. Call it a peace offering."

I clamped down on another rejoinder at the sound of a heavy knock at the delivery entrance. Without another word, I made my way through the building to the rear, shoving the old, bent, back door open with a shoulder check. On the ground lay a white cardboard box, packed carefully with bottles filled with rich, dark amber liquid. They lay on top of something else, a bundle wrapped in dark cloth. I looked up and down the alley, but there seemed to be no one else there, which, truth be told, did not surprise me in the slightest. I sighed, picked the box up, and made my way back inside.

"And what makes you think I'm not going to just dump these down the drain?" I said, taking one of the bottles out after I got back.

"And lose all that profit out of spite? Come on. We both know you're smarter than that. Did you see what else was in the box?" The voice held an almost comical solicitation. I stayed silent.

"We need you back, Zee," they said, a note of seriousness dropping in, "There's something coming. It's getting worse out there every day, you must have noticed."

"You mean the way that every other week there's a new face, and I never see the new faces get old?" I sighed, "Yeah, I noticed. But again, and let me be very clear, fuck you about that."

"Zee-" they started,

"Because the last time worked out so well," I cut them off, "Where your total lack of organization got my girlfriend killed, and I wound up with a monster welded to my soul. Not a goddamn one of us even knows what that even means, and if anyone finds out, I'm just going to be another line item on the kill list. There's a reason I left, and I think there's a reason you didn't try to follow me. So, at the risk of repeating myself, fuck you."

"Things have changed," they said, "There's a full Class-3 on the payroll now. And there's a doctor who's actually trying to answer some questions about them. Maybe they can figure out what happened to you."

"Bullshit," I said. Reflex.

"Talk to them yourself," they said, "We'll be stopping by the bar tonight. Don't worry, I haven't told anyone, let alone the person running the show in Tokyo. They know what you want to tell them. But maybe you could be a little less acerbic; I hear that the newbies tend to be so scared of you that they make someone else order their drinks."

"Until you get them killed," I said, rolling one of the new bottles in my hand.

"Maybe you can help with that," they said.

"I'm still not letting you open a tab," I said.

"Think about it," came the reply, "See you tonight."

I finished putting the bottles away, each feeling heavier than the last. At the end, I looked down into the box, and pulled the parcel out. I tugged at a silk cord, and unwrapped the bundle. Inside, I found a dark suit, and I already knew it would fit perfectly. Tucked into the jacket's inside pocket, a familiar leather bifold, scratched and burned from old adventures. I flipped it open, and recognized the face looking back, although I wasn't sure if I knew the woman anymore. And, at the bottom, heavier than all the rest, a weapon so familiar that it felt like part of my body. I hefted it, thumbed the safety on automatic - engaged, of course - and checked the magazine. Gleaming, familiar, and unnatural - I never knew what they were made of, only that they worked. I slid the magazine home, racked the slide, and set the gun down.

"Motherfucker."



 
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Hanafusa Shika
The Dandelion

No signs of bloodlust since their capture.

But why did it matter, whether the craving consumed or was suppressed? It existed nonetheless, the hunger not for soil and sun, but rather for blood that had long become too polluted to be palpable. Humans spoke of religion and of duty, of fate and of destiny. Blessings and curses rain down in equal measure, their fortunes flummoxed by weal and woe. And yet, the Dandelion remained, bearing the perpetual curse to only subsist off a singular substance. Their kin deluded themselves, of course, in the varieties of blood that existed. Some had preferred their blood boiling hot, freshly bursting out from the bodies of great warriors, desperate fighters. Others possessed perverse inclinations towards the most vulnerable, towards the sanguine allure of virginal blood, of newborn life. Some preferred a taste tinged with betrayal, others were just gluttons seeking to drown themselves. But it all tasted the same. And everything else tasted like pain.

They had outgrown their cravings. That was all there was for the Dandelion, that weed of a parasite that could never truly been gotten rid of. It all tasted the same. It never brought contentment. They always starved, always yearned, and that always brought a banality.

They had outgrown their inhumanity. Countless seasons had passed, and the arrogance of the predator faded into a simple envy. Fluctuations of fate, fluctuations of emotion, all enjoyed by those who would be born, live life, and then die, leaving behind others to take on a torch. The Troubles had chosen survival, the Humans have chosen civilization. And while one hunt and was hunted, the other had so much more to do.

Nothing remained but envy mixed with curiosity, nothing remained but a desire to find something to fill the stomach in a way that blood and battle could not.

Samsara persisted, from seed to sprout to bloom to wilt to soil to seed to sprout to bloo-

For their next incarnation, the Dandelion resolved themselves, rising from the stagnation. They would obtain something new, would become something new.

...

Since her capture, Shika had been wholly cooperative with members of the UTCU, wearing an approximation of a friendly face, doing all she can to indicate her desire to work alongside humanity, to betray her own kind, in exchange for just a little freedom in engaging with their society and their civilization.

But they are very right in their distrust of her, no matter how many naive contractors may protest her treatment.

Things don't change so easily. Shika has simply stopped seeing humans as prey.
 
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    Full Name:
    Takamoto Yori

    Role:
    Captured Changeling

    Age:
    Appears to be about 22

    Pronouns:
    He/Him
 
<3 Akari Ishikawa <3
:bishiesparklesl: Veteran Contractor :bishiesparklesr:
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Overview
Akari was born to a caring scientist and his loving wife. Growing up her life was quite great- she did extraordinarily well in school with top marks and plenty of friends and she had a good family life- emphasis on had. At the start of her teens, her parents mysteriously disappeared. Akari doesn't know what happened to her mom, but she did witness a trouble devouring her father. She carries the guilt of having not done anything- instead running before anyone could spot her, and to make matters worse she could never speak of it. Nobody would've believed her.

She was overtaken by despair. Her grades started lowering, she became distant and jaded- until one day she said "fuck it" and dedicated her time to violence. Maybe it was out of a need to foster the skills for revenge, or for survival now that she was alone, or maybe it was nothing more than coping and stress relief. Even she wouldn't be able to tell. Soon she became a troubleshooter when she was on the older end of her teens, and she's now aged 28.

After years of growing accustomed to bloodshed she's surprisingly grown out of her old distant edgy self. She's now quite friendly and non-serious on the outside; trying to be someone others- especially newbies- can trust and confide in. If she has a couple screws loose and a habit for hatred, she's definitely gotten good at hiding it. She's the type of person you'd go to for a laugh and to forget about your worries, as well as someone you can depend upon for her strength and good fighting tactics.


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Sorry for the lack of bbcode- if I get accepted I'll do her full cs with a full bbcode sheet.
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Hiromatsu
Touji
Role Veteran Contractor (Medic)

Overview

There's no individuality in the face of a legacy. Expectations scarred his childhood, and disappointment was the basis for all the other times.

Born into a company that was run by nepotism, Touji's fate seemed to have sealed itself with his first unfiltered screams. His little hands grasped for the warmth of his mother while she was already envisioning his future position on the council's board. Plans were made for the future, lessons scheduled, and friendships prepared in advance. Every detail was outlined and finely sketched out on paper, but what his parents didn't account for was the sheer indifference their son could hold towards their efforts.

Touji was not a well-behaved child. He held no interest in the age-appropriate toys that littered his rooms nor showed any enthusiasm to engage with the friends his parents provided him. Whatever they offered him—either incentive gifts or veiled threats—was disregarded with muted boredom and wordlessly turned down. Even when privileges were taken away and his room started to contain nothing more than his bed and a closet, his parents were met with standoffish refusal and stubborn pride. Then, in the eyes of Touji, their wishes were trifling in comparison to his own desires.

Life always fascinated the boy greatly. Every part of it was something he'd worship to the deepest. His soul yearned to touch a part of it—to feel the heartbeat pulsing under others' skin and sense the vibrations of a breath coursing through their veins. An eerie obsession that left no room for negotiation.

It came as no surprise when Touji started to take stray animals off the streets into his room. Cradling them closely to his chest as he fed them scraps from his own meals. Their warmth a nice reminder. He saw himself in their existence even when he was often met with deep scratches and loud yowling as a thanks. His parents, thankfully, turned a blind eye to his doings, purposefully ignoring his presence as they focused on his newly born sister.

Not much changed as Touji grew older. His distant attitude towards his family was a stable constant by the time he came of age, and no tears were shed when he finally moved out. A big deposit on his bank account was his parents' parting gift—a silent plea to never reach out to them again. It came in handy when Touji had to finance his medical degree.

Then wasn't saving a life the highest appreciation of it?

It would be during his first year of being stationed at a nearby hospital that he would first encounter the other world; where monsters ran rampage and nightmares became reality.

A patient was admitted. Her wounds were almost too heavy to recover from, with their origins unknown to the staff. All signs hinted at someone inflicting them on the poor soul, but with her body functions entering dangerous low measurements, not many thoughts were spared for the questionable background of her injuries.

Touji was inspecting his tools and readying himself for the upcoming surgery. Back turned towards the operating table. A black flash was the only warning the aspiring doctor received before pain overtook all his senses and muddied everything that came after.

An unwilling passenger in his own body.

Touji heard his voice announce the death of the girl to his coworkers and everything after that was blurry. He felt his limbs run through motions that he wasn't the lord of, and a deep hunger sat in his stomach that didn't feel like it could be sated with mere food. Memories became hazy as his consciousness jumped from one location to another. Faces merged into an incoherent visage and days turned into seconds. The only thing he'd never forget was the taste of blood lingering in his mouth while the screams rang like bells in his ears.

At least he was never alone.

Was this how the strays felt when he took them in and cared for them without their knowledge?

Change came with the appearance of suited men equipped with weapons to fight them. They defeated whatever resided in his body and took them in for further research. It was there that Touji would regain authority over his mobility, but even with his insistence on his recovery, he was not let out. As more time passed and killing him became an obsolete solution, they reluctantly agreed on a compromise. Touji would work for U.T.C.U. as a contracted medic, and as a favour, he'd be allowed some sense of freedom again.

That this was nothing but a pretty illusion was obvious for both sides, but with Touji struggling to come to terms with his empty mind and the gnawing hunger lingering in his soul, he didn't feel that bothered by it. It was a chance to return to a semblance of normalcy and a possibility to ignore the pulsing wish of insanity.

How could he be sane if he yearned to be under the Changeling's control again?

While Touji remained the same on the outside, a charming facade paired with a suitable laugh, his insides churned for more. His fixation with life twisted and darkened, turning into a craze for death.

Only with life's end came its purpose, and he was a fool to not have seen that earlier.

Even if Touji doesn't dare to act upon these urges just yet—especially with the U.T.C.U. still breathing down his neck—he still can't help but feel excitement when circumstances allow him to see the last breath of an unfortunate one.

If he did not look, who else would?
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MISTUGI YURINA
Newbie contractor. w.i.p
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The memory feels so distant now, like a dream belonging to somebody else. The night was sighing its first grievances of winter, wearing its bitterness like a white, downy cloak. Yurina stood on the balcony of her parent’s Shibuya apartment, her lungs shivering with every soft inhale. It was placid, drowsy - quiet…

…So quiet, that Yuri felt sure she couldn’t have been the only one to hear that stifled shot.

She looked. A lone figure stood in the harsh glow of a streetlight, the snow glittering violently beneath their feet. One arm outstretched a pistol. It wasn’t as though she wanted to indulge in the morbidity of someone else's demise, and yet, her eyes moved with certain defiance. The sight of it hit her like a freight train, leaving her powerless and frozen in her place. What she saw that night, she knew then, would change her forever.


During Yurina’s early adolescence, she bore witness to the slaying of some creature, a demon beyond her realm of experience. It was this unknowing that burdened her tirelessly, a private obsession that nearly maddened her with curiosity. Initially, she’d held a naive hope that this elusive figure would show themselves once more, and it’d be then that she’d share with them the scribbles of the monster she had been tirelessly documenting, the drawings that covered her bedroom walls. Establish some credentials of her own. However, with time, and with age, she learnt to take a more proactive approach in her search for answers. Little by little, her life became cluttered with occultism, tinfoil hat-wearing fan clubs, and books of mythology, alien sightings, and technology. She stapled posters on every street corner in pursuit of like-minded people and experiences. She learnt about symbolism and cyphers, endlessly sending encrypted pleas of her own into the online ether.

It was her latest endeavour that finally garnered the attention of U.T.C.U. Her expertise was not in any outstanding craftsmanship but in her misguided, ineffable will. Though she was by this point no stranger to backdoor data breaches, hacking into government classified documents was, admittedly, beyond her capabilities. It was through this feeble attempt that she finally attracted an unknown, but expected visitor to her doorstep. They had decided that at worst, enrolling her would quiet her incessant tampering, but, at best, she could prove to be useful canon fodder for their unit.

Despite her obvious handicap of inexperience, Yurina is desperate to prove herself a worthy recruit within the ranks of U.T.C.U, at any cost. Yurina holds the utmost respect and gratitude towards her unit. This little organisation, this little badge of hers, means more to her than anything else in the world. It's a realisation of all her efforts, proof that she was right all along; we are not alone on this strange planet, there are other dangerous forces at play. Yet, her understanding of the cruelty these 'forces' are capable of remains entirely primitive, an ignorance which sometimes reveals itself in her thoughtless manner of speech. She joins the organisation unscathed by the atrocities many of her peers have endured. Perhaps time spent in the unit will offer her a new perspective.

Outside of training and operations, Yurina is blissfully at ease. It's not uncommon to see her making playful jests, sometimes at the expense of her colleagues. This, however, rarely comes in the way of her devout role as an underling and learner. Whatever may be thrown at her, she is ready to throw herself right back into.
 
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Hasegawa Daiki




Occupation: Newbie Contractor
Twenty-six | Male |

Brief Overview:

Hasegawa Daiki, a common name held by many others, perhaps cementing how irrelevant his life truly was. He was another name, a face- just a number. Nobody missed numbers and, certainly so, nobody would miss Daiki.

Hasegawa grew up with little schooling, his time was spread thin between working with his father and taking care of his little sister. He had a life better than most, at least there was a roof over his head, no matter how decrepit and mould-ridden it was.

What was a lacklustre schooling soon turned into home tutelage and, eventually, he was indoctrinated into a seedy life of fights, loan collection and theft. Hasegawa truly was unremarkable, just another stain on society waiting to be snuffed out.

But, he didnt want that.

Hasegawa did not want to be just another name in some obituary or a run-down tombstone that only held the wear of time rather than loved flowers. He didn't want to be a friendless dick that soured opinions with his mean stare and brawny appearance. Beneath all that gruff and rough exterior, there was a lad that just wanted to be understood and loved- was it so hard to love someone? To love him?

A mother's love he missed out on. She was too busy laying on a mattress to get her next av out; pandering to the hundreds of fans that sat in front of a screen, hands busy. Hasegawa was sick of it, sick of it all. If he had to choose, at least his father wasnsomewhat present...Until he wasn't.

A rabid fan, one that had the wool pulled over their eyes and ran themselves into a debt, shadowed his mother's route home one day and, when they had spotted his father, a brawl ensured and a death occurred.

Was he supposed to be sad? Feel something other than the cold wind that cruelly bit at his ears at the service? Hasegawa felt nothing, perhaps there really was something wrong with him: Maybe he was broken.

The death of his father brought on a slew of new problems. It came to light that his little stint as a debt collector was duly in place to pay of his own debts, that now fell onto his mother. Even more absent than she already was, Hasegawa took up new jobs, odd ones here and there, no matter the consequences, just to make sure his sister had a full belly before she slept.

His work eventually had him dabbling in things that would make priests weep and, Hasegawa being Hasegawa, just stuck his head down and got to work with no complaints. How else was he supposed to pay off the growing debt that held him in the guillotine?

Years went by and, by some stroke of luck, he was made an offer that he couldn’t turn down.


Gone was his life of crime and unjustness. Hasegawa washed his hands of the blood and muck that weighed him down.

Hello to business suits and lanyards that he could've only dreamed about wearing before. Was this it? Was this his redemption and his chance to secure a future for his sister and self?





 
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