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Character: Sha Gojyo
Series/Fandom: Saiyuki
Original or Alternate: Alternate

Age: 24, almost 25 (OU is around 23)
Gender: Male
Species: Half-demon half-human
Sexuality: Bisexual

Appearance: Gojyo used to wear his red hair long, several inches past his shoulder. Having cut them off a year ago however, they now reach just half an inch or so below his chin. He has two strands of hair from the top of his head that wouldn't settle no matter what he tried to beat it down, 'antennaes' a friend had called them. His left eye is colored a bloody red just like his hair, the color a sign of his half-breed heritage, while his right eye is covered by a black eyepatch. Below the eyepatch is a functioning prosthetic green eye. He is tall at 6 foot one-something, but built lean enough to only weigh 166lbs. He is in no way lanky however, with enough muscles on him to pack a punch that could send a man larger than him flying. His casual clothes include sleeveless shirts, turtlenecks and the occasional polo, with comfortable jeans or loose black pants. He has headbands that he often wears on his forehead, some of them having the kanji for 'pleasure' written on them. A pack of cigarettes is ever-present on Gojyo's person.
Personality: Gojyo is a nicotine addict. He does not chain-smoke like his friend Sanzo, but he smokes A LOT. Next to cigarettes, he loves beer and women. He can hold his liquor very well and is a hopeless playboy. He gambles whenever the chance for it arises. He knows enough curses to out-swear a sailor and doesn't care for what others think of him. He will do what he has to do and what he thinks is right; he is determined and strong-willed if not sometimes infuriatingly stubborn.

But he is humble too. He would accept it if his mistakes are shown to him and would gladly follow others if they prove themselves in the better. He is a very good friend who will go to great lengths just for them and their protection. He is not for self-sacrifice, that was his best friend Hakkai's department, but will gladly bear other people's pain for them if he could.

Lastly, he is extremely touchy about the color of his hair and one visible eye, and his eyepatch. Anyone making so much as a comment on them easily turns his mood for the worst. He will almost always either walk out or get into a fight.

Abilities/Strengths: Gojyo is a half-demon and therefore has senses slightly sharper than those of a normal human. He has perfect mastery over his weapon, the shakujou, and of several grappling techniques. He has quick reflexes and is very strong too. He is left-handed and less than seasoned fighters find a difficulty in predicting his moves. Despite being a child of taboo, considered and hated by many to be a bringer of bad luck, Gojyo has considerable skills in gambling. He is good with most women and, though not as fond of them as he is of the aforementioned, children too. He often comes off brash and uncaring, but he can be pretty sensitive of others' feelings.
Weapons: His main weapon is a shakujou, a long metal pole with a crescent blade at one end that can be thrown out with a long length of chain keeping it connected to the pole, and a flat spade-like blade on the other end.

Weaknesses: While stronger than an average human, Gojyo can never be stronger than a full youkai, being only a half-breed. He can be extremely hot-headed; driven by strong emotions, he will not think twice to plunge headlong into danger. He also has a weakness for tears, especially if it is a woman crying. They remind him of his mother, a past he hasn't gotten over just yet. He also cannot stand seeing children abused, especially by their own parents. Since he has had no proper schooling, he is not very intelligent, but is definitely far from being naive.

History:

Gojyo was the bastard son of an unfaithful demon husband and his human mistress. His mother died soon after his birth, and his father left him to the care of his demon wife and then was never seen again. Gojyo's stepmother hated him. She saw both the demon she had loved and the woman who stole him away from her in him and in his hair and eyes, which she often declared, crying and screaming in recurrent hysteria, to be the filthy color of human blood. Gojyo grew up abused, both verbally and physically, but never once fought back. For him, she was his only mother, and he hated her crying and worked hard to win her love, but he never did.

Gojyo had a half-brother, a legitimate child and a full demon, named Sha Jien. In the place of real parents, Jien provided for and took care of him. He protected him from their mother whenever he was around to stop her from hurting him, perhaps the only reason Gojyo survived through the years. Jien loved him and Gojyo loved his older brother back just as much. Perhaps too much.

One night, when he was twelve, Gojyo’s mother tried to kill him. Gojyo was on the floor with a wall right behind him and he looked up to see her crying. He thought that if he died, his mother would stop crying. He was willing to die but before she could kill him, Jien stabbed her through the chest from behind, and she died instead.

(AU!) Gojyo stared unbelievingly at his brother, who was crying, and then passed out. When he came to, his brother was gone and the pool of his mother’s blood by his feet had grown cold. Gojyo loved his brother so much that he refused to believe he had caused him that much pain, that is, to take the life of their own beloved mother, and his mind fabricated a different story for him: Gojyo had decided to end his insane mother's suffering by killing her. Jien had gone home to discover what he had done and had hit him on the face, making the two welts on his left cheek with his sharp claws, then left when Gojyo passed out from the pain. The weight of his mother's dead body as he buried her sealed these fake events into his memories.

He had lived on his own since then, getting by with money from gambling. When he was 19, Gojyo met a man named Cho Gonou. He found Gonou half-dead on the road one rainy night and brought the man back to his home, literally shoving his intestines back inside him and getting a doctor to look over him. Without questioning him, Gojyo let Gonou stay with him to heal. He didn’t even care to find out the man’s name. Around a month later, a high-ranking monk named Genjo Sanzo came for Gonou. It turned out Gonou was a felon wanted for the deaths of over a thousand demons, which had resulted to him becoming a demon himself, and half a human village. Gojyo protecting and allowing Gonou to escape lead to a chase, and they found him just as he was about to take his left eye out after gouging his right one out and giving it to a demon who claimed to be the brother of one of his victims and demanding retribution. Gojyo, with the help of Sanzo and his companion Son Goku, managed to convince a guilt-ridden and somewhat suicidal Gonou to continue on living. Shortly after, Sanzo took him into his custody.

Sometime later, Sanzo told Gojyo that Gonou was dead. In grief, Gojyo cut off his long red hair. One day however, Gonou reappeared to him while he was out buying apples. The gods had seen it fit to give him a second chance and he has discarded the name 'Cho Gonou' for 'Cho Hakkai'. With nowhere else to go, and stating that Gojyo couldn't take care of himself if left alone, Hakkai decided to stay with Gojyo.

They lived together for three years before a calamity broke out through Shangri-La. Someone had been trying to revive Gyumaoh, an evil demon sealed away by the War Prince Nataku 500 years ago, with the forbidden mixture of science and magic. This project resulted to 'Minus Waves', which in turn made demons all over the land loose their sanity and start attacking humans. Gojyo was not affected by the waves since he was only half-demon, while Hakkai used to be human and had limiters in the form of three cuffs on his left ear which kept him in human form. Genjo Sanzo, as an envoy to the gods, was ordered to bring the two of them and Son Goku West to stop the resurrection.

So they traveled West, using Hakkai's pet dragon, Hakuryuu, who turned into a jeep, as their primary mode of transportation, and Sanzo's unlimited golden credit card, gifted by the gods, to buy supplies with. They were on the road for months, their journey interrupted every now and then by various beings most of which were after their lives--mainly demons sent to assassinate them, but also gods and, occassionally, disillusioned humans.

(AU! 'til end) As they got further and further into the West and nearer to their destination, Gojyo found himself slowly falling for Hakkai. He never said anything however; his feelings didn't look to be likely returned and he didn't want anything to come between him and his best friend and definitely not anything of this sort. He didn't have time to anyway. Fights with the demons were rapidly increasing in number and progressively becoming harder as they neared Gyumaoh's castle.

Finally, it came to the point that desperate measures had to be taken. To defeat an unbelievingly large and extremely strong demon army, Gyumaoh's last line of defense, both Hakkai and Goku decided to take off their limiters. Goku, as expected, went on a rampage. Hakkai was much more refined, but no less bloody. The battle lasted for hours. Hakkai, without his limiters, was exposed to the Minus Wave and it steadily ate at his sanity, but none of them noticed.

As soon as the last demon fell down, Sanzo was on Goku, replacing his limiter. The exhausted brunette fell asleep as he returned to his human form. Gojyo, meanwhile, tried to return Hakkai's limiters which had earlier been left to his care. As he approached the demon however, one clawed hand suddenly lashed out at him, rendering his right eye damaged beyond repair.

Gojyo's cry of pain and a subsequent warning shot from Sanzo's gun snapped Hakkai out of his insanity, but only temporarily. Not-so-long traumatic story made short, even as Hakkai struggled for control and erratically attacked them, his ever self-sacrificing best friend asked, no, begged the two to kill him, choosing death over becoming a threat. Gojyo had, of course, tried to insist that there must be another way, but even Sanzo agreed that there was no reversing the effects of the Minus Wave. The monk offered to do it, but, with tears flowing from his good eye and blood from his destroyed one, Gojyo did it. He had done it for his insane mother (or so he still believed), how could he not do it for his best friend and beloved? He killed Hakkai with his shakujou and made sure he was dead with one of Sanzo's bullets to his heart.

They completed their mission, got themselves treated and recovered at the nearest human town, then started on their long, silent journey home. Gojyo sat where Hakkai used to stay behind the wheel of the jeep. When they finally got back, the gods offered Gojyo a prosthetic eye just like they had offered Hakkai one several years ago, but Gojyo refused. Instead, he pleaded with them for Hakkai's own green artificial eye. He also cut his hair like he had when Gonou 'died'.

Gojyo returned to where he and Hakkai used to live and stayed there, alone with only the companion of Hakkai's pet Hakuryuu. Much like in his years prior to meeting Gonou/Hakkai, he spent his nights gambling and drinking at the local bars. The differences were that, while he still flirted with them, he didn't take women home short of utter inebriation on his part. Also, he picked up after himself, keeping the house clean as if Hakkai was there to reprimand him.

On the eve of Hakkai's death anniversary, Gojyo got himself pissed drunk. When he woke up, he was in a place he had never seen before and definitely never had been to before. He was in Econtra.

Barracks Assignment: Dor-Pente
Training Division: Physical Offensive

Disclaimer:
This is a role-playing journal for econtra_rpg by xcerpted.
Sha Gojyo © Kazuya Minekura.
All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

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