Ishikawa Saizo
Sept 14, 2023 22:47:56 GMT -5
Post by Ishikawa Saizo on Sept 14, 2023 22:47:56 GMT -5
Ishikawa Saizo
Gender: Male
Age: Twenty-One
Race: Human
Nationality: Crescent Isles
Appearance: Saizo general appearance is unassuming and average in most ways. He is Five foot ten, has an athletic build, black/gray hair, and dark brown eyes and has only one defining feature with that being a deep claw like scar that runs from his right pectoral diagonally up over his right shoulder.
He normally wears blacks, blues, grays and browns in a mixture of leathers, fabrics and silks with rarely any embellishments as those are easily remembered by those who may see him while he is on the job. He likes traveling cloaks that can easily detach and pouches in his clothing, really anything to help him keep a light evenly distributed load.
Personality: Most would say he is plain, not stern nor jolly. Never the first to make a joke or even light up a room, but he is kind and sincere in the actions that he does even if his words never seem to be anything less then direct and without emotion. He cares about the perceptions of those he values but doesn't even bat an eye at those he cares or knows nothing about. His life was rough, nor was it privileged and it affords him a certain air of aloofness that feels natural and not forced. His main quirk that most might see is his preference for food, he cares not if he has patched cloaks, or fading clothes, but he does value superb ingredients and good food as its one of the only vices he truly has.
History: Saizo grew up as a member of the Ishikawa Family, a prominent merchant group that dots the Crescent Isles as dockmasters and accountants for the Emperor on paper, in reality they are one of many ancient families of Ninja that protect the Crescent Isles from threats both within and without. The Ishikawa in particular focus on exports and imports, making sure the Isles stay free of unwanted items that could be devastating to the way of life for the people of the Isles and their safety. It is through this sacred duty and attention to small details in all things that Saizo was raised.
He was born as one of four children to the Hano Port Ishikawa's Dockmaster and like his siblings he spent his childhood learning to read, write, social graces, accounting, swordsmanship, history, dance, calligraphy, tea ceremony, subsistence, cooking, sailing, and fishing in an official capacity as would be expected by children of their station. Behind closed doors however he and his siblings learned the families techniques and skills as they were thrown into seemingly impossible situations where only mental games and ingenuity would see them fed for the night. It was in the shadowed under hall of his families estate that he learned puzzles, ciphers, languages, stealth, the art of killing, and magic once he was able.
His family did not approach their way of life in any manner other than one of duty and preservation. The hope was to always be ready but never be needed and that was the motto that they had lived by for centuries and had carried them through the ages, and would do so for many more. It was this all encompassing feeling of dedication to the cause that consumed his younger years as he trained and grew, and was molded into a model member of the Ishikawa Clan.
On his twentieth name day he was released into the world to learn about it at large with a simple directive: Bring no shame to the clan, and learn all that you can to strengthen the family for generations to come. Like his siblings before him, and his ancestors he was told to travel the world under the guise of business research while also knowing to report on anything he may see or hear that was of value to the directive of the Ishikawa Clan set forth by the Isles centuries past.
Over the last year Saizo hasn't exactly had it easy as the first ship he was on was waylaid by pirates, and after washing ashore in The Pale City despite having been bound for Moon Glade he has spent many months simply surviving and making his way through the port towns of the main continent, trying to maintain his mission and his life at all costs.