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[reformedsinner]

the vital statistics meme!

Icons can't tell us everything! This is a meme to share what your character looks like in person: height, build, style and any other details that might go unnoticed.

Just fill out the form, then comment around and let your CR know how close your mental image was.

<b>Height:</b> <b>Build:</b> Muscular? Skinny? Heavyset? Wiry? <b>Voice:</b> High or low? Where's their accent from? Can they sing? <b>Usual hairstyle:</b> <b>Usual outfit:</b> <b>Posture:</b> Do they slouch? Sit tall? Move like a dancer? <b>Body language:</b> What are their tells? How big is their personal bubble? Are they the hugging type? <b>Scars, tattoos, accessories:</b> <b>Other:</b> Anything else that someone would notice in a conversation!

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[koukai_kirai]

Height: No canon height, but I put him at juuuust shy of 6 feet. Tall enough to be Super Tall (but not like freakishly) in pre-Meiji Japan, but honestly just sort of tallish-side-of-average-or-maybe-a-little-tall-in-Japan for a man nowadays.
Build: He's got that Heroic Build thing going on -- broad through the shoulders, narrow at the waist, very densely muscled. His musculature isn't necessarily super bulky, but it's well-enough developed and on a big enough frame that it's pretty imposing nonetheless.
Voice: Low. Deep, sonorous, and with a sort of command to it that's so unthinking and casual as to seem nearly accidental. He speaks precisely as much or as little as he feels like he needs to for any given conversation, which can range up to detailed Exposition Dumps but often tends more towards brisk questions and one-word answers. In Japanese, his grammar comes off as distinctly blunt, frequently to the point of being rude as Hell, but in
a way that's ultimately no-nonsense (however it's taken) rather than uncultured or uneducated. Since he's from post-canon, he does also sometimes drop the harsher, more aggressive tone and speak more softly; when he does, he speaks fairly little, and his tone can be difficult to read, but tends to have more shades of compassion, grief, and open reflectiveness. Japanese people would likely peg his idiolect as fairly "neutral" in region, since the Tokyo region's Japanese is currently considered the "standard", very masculine, and at times a bit old-fashioned.
Usual hairstyle: It's actually shorter than it is in like 90% of my icons, since he cut it to a more western style in the months before his death. He's been growing it out again in the Far Shore, but it's still at that awkward length that's not quite long enough to get into a proper ponytail, much to his regret.
Usual outfit: He's taken to the new fashions of the Near Shore a bit, having always been a stealth peacock fashion-conscious, but old habits do die hard. He's got a small collection of stylishly minimalistic suits, but often falls back (especially at home in his shrine) on plain black yukata, sometimes with hakama when he's training.
Posture: Hijikata doesn't slouch, he lounges. The world is his throne, and he's too Confident and Manly for proper posture. (Once or twice in canon, he has to sit and speak properly to VIPs, and the shift in his body language is hilariously dramatic.) That said, there's a certain sort of grace both to his sprawls and to the way he moves. In all things, he's a big believer in dignified minimalism -- whether he's socializing or fighting, everything should have a purpose, and should be done to exactly the degree that best serves his purpose. In fights particularly, his pragmatism tends to manifest in movement that's as simple and elegant as it is efficient and brutal (which is to say, extremely.)
Body language: A lot of his tics and tells are around the hands; the timing of his gestures when he's smoking (that is, most of the time) is deliberate and oddly expressive if one watches closely. He comes off as stoic and severe at first glance because the ways he does show emotion are typically rather quiet and subtle, but if you get to know him well, he tends to be very easy to read, in the little furrows of his brow and the way he carries himself and the times he chooses to go silent.

He's not very physically affectionate with most people, and tends to have a large and solid Personal Space bubble, but certain people are distinct exceptions to that rule. Souji gets away with whatever amount of noisy, cuddly affection he wants, close friends can expect a certain amount of Stoic Manly Friend Affection from time to time, and he can be surprisingly gentle with subordinates and Youths once in a blue moon.
Scars, tattoos, accessories: None of note, though he's almost certainly got a few minor scars here and there.
Other: Resting Disapproving Dad Face.


On another note: I'm alive, I promise, gonna get active again as soon as I figure out how to jump back in...

[priforprince]

...I know we haven't had a chance to play much, but "resting disapproving dad face" is such a perfect description of how I imagine him always looking.

[koukai_kirai]

It's 100% accurate.