Satsuki Yamaoka
Established
Roleplay posts: 12
Age: 28
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Satsuki has an unconventional appearance. Her sharp features create a stern, serious, impression that fall in contrast to her lithe, and relatively small stature, though among the women of Tawakoshi, she is often a head taller than the rest. With dark hair, pale skin, and sharp eyes, she doesn't stand out much from your typical Tawakoshi woman. She has naturally rosy lips, high cheek bones dotted with little freckles, a pointed chin, and prominent ears. Her face is marked most notably by a beauty mark just next to her left eye.
As for her frame, she is thin, but not sickly. She has an agile physique, taut muscle on a lithe frame, marked in several places by long jagged streaks or splintered risen circles, scars which tell a history of hardship in combat.
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Clothes and Equipment: Satsuki's dress is unconventional, to say the least. She most certainly borrows from a foreign style when it comes to her military garb and work attire, favoring a navy blue double breasted frock coat with gilded buttons, golden aiguillette, matching boat cloak with golden embroidery and a straight high collar. Her head is always adorned with a star white admiral's cap sporting a golden braided chinstrap. She typically wears white breeches with high white socks and black buckled shoes, or knee high boots, depending on the weather. She usually ties her hair in a tight bun behind her back, sometimes with braids sometimes with black ribbons. Always resting gently on her nose is a pair of circle rim spectacles, as the Yamaoka girl is quite severely nearsighted.
When it comes to equipment on deck, the girl still shows her samurai roots. An ornate katana and paired wakizashi hang from her hip in lacquered saya. It's not unusual to see her sporting a spear with a 'kama yari' style blade and a short shaft, around six or seven feet.
Outside of work and war, Satsuki doesn't shy away from a more traditional attire, opting for yukata similarly colored to her normal uniform. Though rare, she can sometimes even be seen in a full on kimono of more extravagant design, but delicate silks keep poorly at sea, so these are usually only worn when docked for long periods of time.
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Allegiances: Quying, Daimyo Zuikaku, East Isran Trade Co.
Registered: Aug 4, 2019 9:20:55 GMT -8
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Post by Satsuki Yamaoka on Aug 5, 2019 14:06:42 GMT -8
 'A Sip of Yamaoka', an izakaya tucked into the alleyways between the market quarters of Quying, the space had been under family control for generations. It began as a sake shop when Satsuki's great grandfather first started selling and bottling his own brew. Since then, it's gone through severe changes. Her grandfather began the process of transitioning the place into an izakaya when he saw a more lucrative market in the burgeoning style of said business, and her father would be the one to rebrand it with the Yamaoka name and use it predominantly as local advertising for Yamaoka products, keeping only their own brand stocked. Ultimately Yamaoka has largely outgrown the quaint little sake stand, but it remains an important part of family history, and property is considered valuable due to it's location. The izakaya now is primarily staffed by extended relatives to the main family, cousins, in-laws, and the like. Occasionally more prominent Yamaoka family members stop in, but usually as customers, rather than staff.
The atmosphere inside is quiet and quaint, with soft lantern glow, low seats, and kind staff. They serve sake predominantly, both hot and cold, as well as awamori and umeshu, all of Yamaoka craft. They also offer shareable foods or those easily eaten like karaage, kushiyaki, yakitori, and yakisoba. Samurai frequent the place, it's quite popular among Quying naval personnel, due to familial connections and all. |
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Satsuki Yamaoka
Established
Roleplay posts: 12
Age: 28
Physical Description: ---------------------------------------------------------
Satsuki has an unconventional appearance. Her sharp features create a stern, serious, impression that fall in contrast to her lithe, and relatively small stature, though among the women of Tawakoshi, she is often a head taller than the rest. With dark hair, pale skin, and sharp eyes, she doesn't stand out much from your typical Tawakoshi woman. She has naturally rosy lips, high cheek bones dotted with little freckles, a pointed chin, and prominent ears. Her face is marked most notably by a beauty mark just next to her left eye.
As for her frame, she is thin, but not sickly. She has an agile physique, taut muscle on a lithe frame, marked in several places by long jagged streaks or splintered risen circles, scars which tell a history of hardship in combat.
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Clothes and Equipment: Satsuki's dress is unconventional, to say the least. She most certainly borrows from a foreign style when it comes to her military garb and work attire, favoring a navy blue double breasted frock coat with gilded buttons, golden aiguillette, matching boat cloak with golden embroidery and a straight high collar. Her head is always adorned with a star white admiral's cap sporting a golden braided chinstrap. She typically wears white breeches with high white socks and black buckled shoes, or knee high boots, depending on the weather. She usually ties her hair in a tight bun behind her back, sometimes with braids sometimes with black ribbons. Always resting gently on her nose is a pair of circle rim spectacles, as the Yamaoka girl is quite severely nearsighted.
When it comes to equipment on deck, the girl still shows her samurai roots. An ornate katana and paired wakizashi hang from her hip in lacquered saya. It's not unusual to see her sporting a spear with a 'kama yari' style blade and a short shaft, around six or seven feet.
Outside of work and war, Satsuki doesn't shy away from a more traditional attire, opting for yukata similarly colored to her normal uniform. Though rare, she can sometimes even be seen in a full on kimono of more extravagant design, but delicate silks keep poorly at sea, so these are usually only worn when docked for long periods of time.
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Allegiances: Quying, Daimyo Zuikaku, East Isran Trade Co.
Registered: Aug 4, 2019 9:20:55 GMT -8
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Post by Satsuki Yamaoka on Aug 5, 2019 14:25:50 GMT -8
The shop was all but dead, in a way, the silence was welcome. It wasn't often Satsuki got much time to herself anymore. Life at sea was a constant commotion, and while her promotion to captain had granted her a little cabin to call her own, she rarely got more than a few hours to herself. When she returned to Quying on leave, it was usually to stay with family, which meant that they were fervent about spending every moment she had at their side, particularly her mother, who surprisingly had grown quite a soft, sweet spot for her only daughter since she began to spend so much time away from home, in stark contrast to the harsh, cold face she received from the woman in her youth. Perhaps she had proven herself enough, or perhaps her current unavailability had changed her mother's perspective. In any case, while it was nice to be wanted and loved, it was tiring to spend every waking moment with half a dozen people chattering in her ear. The empty bar at late night izakaya was a welcome change of pace.
For once, the admiral had actually made an appearance in more casual attire, nursing a cup of warm sake cloaked in a simple blue yukata with thin, white stripes. The mix of warm alcohol and the cool evening air was a refreshing sensation. She had a few days stay over in Quying while a large trade fleet prepared to make the journey to Isra, she would be overseeing said transport. The timing was just right for respite hours like these, her parents not nagging her to spend the evening at home with them because she would be up and out the door in a manner of hours as it was. She reveled in the simple silence, but it would not last.
The cloth flaps which draped across the entrance to the pub flipped and fluttered as someone entered. The sleepy call of her cousin behind the counter giving a half-hearted welcome drew her attention to the new arrival. Her eyes turned to the open doorway, wondering who had wandered in this time of night. She prayed it wasn't someone from one of her crews. She didn't mind company, as long as it didn't come with the baggage of social expectations. Fortunately the stranger's face was wholly unfamiliar to her. Satsuki watched expectantly for the new arrival to take a seat nearby, her focus returning to her cup as she took another generous sip of the rice wine.
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