Douken Sota

DOuken's personality tend to seem quite dull or bored, especially when he is talking to people. However, that is simply because his mind tends to keep n winding around new ideas or possibilities that can exist. Always open to learning new things, he can get quite fixated, or almost entranced by a new gadget just to see how it ticked until he can figure it out how it can be repaired.

LIKES:

• Working with his hands
  
• Noisy environments
  
• challenges
  
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DISLIKES:

• lectures
• criminals
• stubborn people
  
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GOALS & SECRETS:

• goal::: Figure out how his luck quickly diminished when he left Hryst.
  
• secret::: He constantly loses to his younger sister in everything athletically, even before she started her training.
  

Makeshift Weaponry: Though Douken is not trained for any kind of actual combat, he is not unfamiliar with self-defense and is quite adaptive on using nearby objects as weapons, like a wrench as a mace, screwdriver as a dagger, or a pipe as a sword. Though he is not proficient with anything, he knows a good blow to the head can still hurt.

Engineering and mechanics: Through his years of tinkering and school, Douken is quite knowledgeable about building and repairing mechanical objects and is working it into a career for himself. Even if he is unfamiliar with an object, it does not take him long to learn how things work as long as he sees the internal components and mechanics.

Comedic Damage Resistance:  Though he is prone to accidents, he seems to be able to brush off any kind of damage just fine, from electrical shocks to projects bursting in his face (with possible shrapnel) to getting piled by random clutter, he can survive the punishment no matter how fatal the accident can look. However, this does not save him from any kind of combat or injury meant for him.

required: 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses.


strengths:

• Intelligent
• adaptive
• resiliant
  

weaknesses:

• Accident prone
  
• strength is more for lifting instead of fighting
  
• lack of sea legs
  

Douken was born within the spring of Hyrst within the last week of the final blizzard of the year. As he grew up in school, he always saw his father bring home new things as his mom took care of his younger sister. Curious, he would always try to sneak a peak (though was always caught), and saw most of them were things his mining crew used that broke down. With his curious mind wanting to help, he assisted his father on the projects, starting off from simple unscrewing (and being told what not to swallow) to over the years being able to work on more complicated mechanics.

Upon completion of the mandatory schooling, Douken joined his father at the mines, but more as a repairman than as a miner. This still lead to jobs getting done faster and some impressive finds thanks to the lack of delays. At home, he would tend to get into arguments with his younger sister which soon turned into bets on who was right or who could not complete such a task, with the reward usually being a drink or dessert.

A few years have passed since douken had started with his father's mining company, becoming pretty common with the miners and gaining a popularity on his speed of repairs, as he always made the push to get things done faster, though it was arguable he was doing it to get it more out of the way as the technology was not all that advanced, which made it pretty easy to see what was wrong and how to fix it. Still, he always worked with a smile and joked with the workers.

Figuring he needed a break from his small workshop, his father told him about a shipment they were expecting from port and asked to help retrieve it and get it to the site. Agreeing, he headed over to the port where t seemed a band of thugs were trying to raid. It may of been with his sister working to be a knight or the vibe of Hryst, he didn't really partake in the idea of thieves in the area. In turn, he began attacking and holding back the thugs with his wrench until the knights arrived and able to handle the situation. Sure, he had to describe why he was attacking people with such a substitute weapon, but they let his actions go as it saved valuable cargo, including his pick up.

With the owner of the shipment with him, he assisted hauling the cargo through the landscape back to the site, killing tome with small talk. The man came from Aquavia it seemed, and the shipment was supposed to be a "very simple way to light the caverns." Talking as if it was so primitive, it was a bit insulting.

Arriving back on site, not to any surprise, they left some more gear to fix as they put in the new lighting system. With the Aquavian watching, he commented on how if he learned the tech, he could be a great asset to the workers on their end. He looked over at his father in concern, but he replied in a laugh, replying, "Don't worry. I'm sure we can get another grease monkey on our hands. Go on, its your life now!" he couldn't help but smile, as father's quote always got him. He spent that night packing for the next ship out to Aquavia.

It was clear the boy had no form of sea legs or stomach, which made common sailors laugh as they tried giving advice to help him out.  One of them was to do something to keep his mind off the waves, an inventor himself by the looks of it. As he watched, he looked at how small the screws were, considering how big instruments he had been used to working. Talking to him about it. After some talk about the possible work he was going to get and the situation, the pair decided to make Douken's first invention: his magnifying eyepatch.

Though it felt like forever and a half, being off the week long journey on the ship felt like such a relief for the hrystian. However, paired with the inventor from before and the funds he gained from working with his father, he was able to get himself set up with  small place he could call his own, and soon turning it into a small repair shop.

However, it was clear the land was not liking him, as ever since he had moved to the new landscape, his luck had vastly diminished, finding himself getting into numerous accidents and bad situations. Though at first he saw it as a miracle that he lived through each one and considered returning to hryst, he stuck to his work, and eventually getting used to the accidents as if it was a normal day when one occurred.

known family:

Drekk Sota (father)- 53 - miner
samantha Sota (mother)- 47 - house taker
lynn Sota (sister)- 20 - student in the academy of Knighthood