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derangedsilence · 4 years

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Reiji Sakamaki

Permissions

Shipping? Yes. Singleship per verse with limited verses. Please note - as stated on the rules page, orientation is typically listed as what the muses think they are.

Duplicates? Multiple ‘Yuis’? What about character that aren’t on the dedicated castmates list? Yes. You can thrust Reiji at Reiji. There’s also no issue with duplicates of canon, crossover, etc. characters that Reiji is already interacting with. You want it, you got it. To prevent destroying the validity of duplicate muses, I will sometimes think of things as ‘A Kanato did this’ instead of ‘Kanato did this’, which is a very subtle difference but prevents another muse from having to deal with the blame of an event they were not responsible for. This will only be differentiated as necessary within writing. I repeat: all duplicate muses will be treated with respect, not as ‘fakes’. Any Sakamaki brother is a brother of his, regardless of how many Kanatos there are (for example). We’re just going to, uh, slide past that as often as possible (and occasionally make jokes).

Multiple Reijis will be treated as though they’d somehow wandered into one’s world or the other via some enchanted, strange object or doorway in the Sakamaki household. This allows them to interact, but prevents the concept that one is a ‘true’ Reiji over the other. You have been warned.

Fighting? A-Okay. I’ve done a lot of fighting roleplay but it was in the past and I’m way more interested in the storytelling of it. It’s better that we discuss the end result beforehand for smoother sailing, but we can improv it as well. I do this from a storytelling perspective.

Harming? A-Okay! Just be aware that this muse may harm or kill yours in turn!

Killing? A-Okay! Please be aware, however, that should the need or desire to continue the verse arise, the death scene will be considered a what-if. In addition, it is very difficult to kill this muse due to the pureblood resurrection abilities.

Can we send shippy memes / etc.? Sure, we can still explore what-ifs, drabbles and oneshot threads, but the main focus will be on the storyline here!

Can we know Yui has Cordelia’s heart, is possibly turning into a vampire, is surrounded by vampires, etc. and reference this to Reiji? On a case-by-case basis. It should be discovered organically if it’s not something your character would be able to know already. There’s plenty of situations where this would make sense.

Can we know about Reiji’s past before interacting? No, not unless you have genuine reasons for it like being one of his brothers.

Can we have characters comment on the events of the timeline? Yes, if they “catch sight of”, “overhear a rumor”, “a familiar saw X”, or any other sensible reason, then characters can be aware of and comment on events. I wholly encourage characters participate in Reiji’s life! Please tell the story with me!

Can we rescue Yui Komori from the Sakamaki household? Unlikely. At best, if you succeed in the first place, it’s entirely likely that they will find you, they will take Yui back, and they will kill one or both of you for this. Or the Mukamis might take advantage of the situation! Obviously, the exception here is the Mukamis, who are entirely expected to attempt this from time to time.

Can we reference interactions we’ve had with your Kanato, etc. to Reiji? I mean...sure? If you want? I’m fine with using my muses for plot and timeline advancements for myself and those I interact with (within limits) but I’d also prefer to not be my Ayato’s Kanato and vice versa, so this would probably be limited. You can still act like what’s happened has happened, though.

Biography / Stats

FULL NAME. Reiji Sakamaki ALIAS. Reiji-san (Yui), Tableware Otaku (Ayato), Shichisan Megane (Ayato), That “Unlikeable Person” (Laito), My Dear (Cordelia) AGE. Appears 18-19 || Actually significantly older BIRTHDAY. August 29 GENDER & PRONOUNS. Male, he/him ORIENTATION. Heterosexual SPECIES. Vampire OCCUPATION. High school student of the night school known as Ryoutei Academy. 3rd year in HDB, 1st year of the college branch if assuming time has passed. RESIDENCE. Sakamaki residence, Japan

HAIR. Dark purple/black EYES. Red BUILD. Fit HEIGHT. 6'0'' (183cm) TATTOOS. None PIERCINGS. None. ADDITIONAL MARKINGS. Glasses. OTHER. Right-handed

ZODIAC. Virgo ALIGNMENT. Lawful neutral POSITIVE TRAITS. disciplined, sophisticated, intelligent NEGATIVE TRAITS. strict, arrogant, perfectionist

BIRTH PLACE. Japan NATIONALITY. Japanese PARENTS. Karlheinz (Alive?), Beatrix (Dead) SIBLINGS. Sibling: Shuu (older). Paternal Half-siblings: Subaru and the triplets (Ayato, Kanato, Laito) EXTENDED FAMILY. Karlheinz's other wives, Christa and Cordelia. Richter (Uncle). EDUCATION. High school (likely several times over) SPECIES. Vampire NOTABLE SKILLS. Housecleaning, cooking, household management, academic work, poison & drug creation, piano, chess LANGUAGES. Japanese, English, German FAVORITE FOOD. Spaghetti carbonara

PUREBLOOD. Inhuman strength, increased speed, vision, hearing, and smell. Fast healing & healing saliva. TELEPORTATION. Can teleport instantaneously. FLYING. He can fly on a full moon. SWORDSMANSHIP. A OTHER. Potion, drug and poison creation. Can heal/treat vampires. WEAKNESSES. Truly holy objects weaken him, but not by much. DISLIKES. Weakness, poor manners, disobedience towards the rules of the household, the cursed incantation of “Reiji, Reiji, please engage-y”

Appearance

[*Credit: Appearance section pulled directly from the Dialovers Wiki.]

Reiji is a tall, slender young man. His hair is primarily purple-black with a lighter gradient. It is almost an inch away from being shoulder length and it is neatly combed. Reiji’s eyes are red. He wears rectangular glasses.

Reiji usually dresses professionally to match his cordial facade. In HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL, he wears a grey and black vest over a white dress shirt with black pants and a black belt.

In MORE, BLOOD, he wears a black trench coat with a white dress shirt and black pants.

In DARK FATE, Reiji grows his hair out in order to emulate his father.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket with a buttoned red vest over a black dress shirt and red tie. He wears it with the black uniform pants and dress shoes.

According to Cordelia, if he weren’t so stiff, Reiji would look just like Karlheinz when she first met him. She says that even his eyes are just like Karl’s. This was said in an effort to tease Reiji, since he admires his father and dreams of becoming like him.

Personality

The household is a reflection of the outside world and one’s ability to affect it.

Despite being the second son, Reiji manages the Sakamaki house during Karlheinz’ prolonged absence as though he is the eldest. Reiji manages the household funds, affairs and maintains the rules and expectations within the house. Reiji is a strict perfectionist who values rules and expectations and he demands highly of both himself and others.

Often wearing a smile, Reiji is intelligent, reserved...and pessimistic. The second son’s polite, refined mannerisms make the barbs in his sophisticated speech come at a surprise - unless you’re related to him.

History

CHILDHOOD. As the second son of the Sakamaki family, Beatrix raised him to be a servant for his elder brother, Shuu. She focused her attention almost entirely on Shuu, neglecting Reiji’s ambitious nature and his achievements.

Reiji’s desire for his mother’s approval and attention never waned. Twisting as the desire continued to be unmet, Reiji eventually burned down an entire human village, resulting in the death of Shuu’s human friend Edgar. Reiji did this to punish and teach Shuu a lesson while also hoping to help and impress his mother, Beatrix. Eventually Reiji even hired a vampire hunter to kill his mother in his desire to finally be acknowledged by her. Instead of feeling at peace with it, he was dissatisfied that his mother was happy that he had killed her.

NEAR CURRENT. Karlheinz manipulated circumstances to keep tossing experimental sacrificial brides at his children. None could endure the blood loss, physical and emotional torment. The sacrificial brides were too fragile and the Sakamakis broke their toys.

CURRENT. A single sacrificial bride is surviving and enduring: Yui Komori. Whichever brother obtains her will become the Sakamaki heir. Without directly entering into a “relationship” with any of the Sakamakis, she endures her stay there.

Verses

Brief summaries of the verses for Reiji along with potential links for those less familiar with Diabolik Lovers but still want to interact with him. For the sake of keeping things clean, encouraging community-wide and cooperative storytelling in roleplay, and not letting things get too crazy, verses will be limited. More may be made over time as needed.

Summaries:

VERSE - HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL

*This verse will be typically be the default, 'main verse'. In this, it is assumed that Yui Komori is staying at the Sakamaki household with some version of the first game having taken place. If the second game is included, it's with the idea that Yui stayed with the Sakamakis. Whether Reiji or one of his brothers winds up obtaining the Sacrificial Bride, Reiji’s life continues.

Verse Details | Tag: #V; REIJI; HAUNTED DARK BRIDAL

VERSE - MORE BLOOD

If for some reason it's absolutely necessary to differentiate between the verse above and a verse where More Blood has certainly occured, but Yui did not (at least initially) stay with the Sakamakis and instead is currently living with the Mukamis or was, until recently, still living with the Mukamis. Rivalry abounds and attempts to procure Yui are likely.

Verse Details | Tag: #V; REIJI; MORE BLOOD

VERSE - MISC.

Posts that could take place in the Sakamaki or Mukami verses but involve duplicates (whether Yui or others) in the same scene in a manner that would be hard to pass off as typical flow for those verses. Also includes nearly ANY time fellow characters are staying at the mansion, otherwise we’d end up with verses of 20+ additional characters hanging out in the Sakamaki villa.

Verse Details | Tag:#V; REIJI; MISC

SITUATIONAL VERSE TAGS

#V; REIJI; UNIVERSAL

Posts that can easily be assumed to have occured in either the Sakamaki or Mukami verses, typically answering asks, etc. that aren’t directly related to events unique to their timelines.

#V; REIJI; WHAT IFS & #V; REIJI; ONESHOTS

Likely reserved for one-off threads exploring a “what if”, a romantic meme that would otherwise be inappropriate, etc. If a meme doesn’t quite fit with one of the existing timelines, it’ll get one of these.

Trivia

Collects tableware

Good at finding killers for hire apparently, you go man

He reads very well

Sensitive when he gets drunk, whatever that means

He wants to bring his mother back to torture and kill her again

Tags

THREAD / WRITING TAG: #echoes in the halls; reiji

HEADCANONS: #hc; dialovers; reiji

IMAGES: #itt // reiji sakamaki

MUSIC: #music; dialovers; reiji

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itsworn · 7 years

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Speedway Motors Week to Wicked 1952 Chevy Pickup: The Chassis

Here’s a hypothetical situation, one that some of you will probably relate to (hopefully not all in a negative way): You finally put the last weld, tightened the last nut and bolt, and threw those brand spanking new wheels and tires that have been wrapped up the last couple-few years it’s taken you to complete the chassis for your prized Advance Design pickup. It’s got everything you wanted to make your work truck a modern daily driver: IFS, disc brakes, power steering, V-8 power, all that good stuff. You invite your friends over for some cold ones to join in celebrating as you fire the old girl up for the first time. But … before you even have a chance to crank the starter over, one of your friends asks you, “Have you seen that chassis Speedway Motors has for these here trucks that’s 100 percent bolt-together? I imagine not, ’cause you probably wouldn’t have wasted all that time and money fixing yours if you had…”

For some, the joy comes from the time spent in the garage, more so than the time spent behind the wheel. For those who prefer seat time and would rather leave the heavy labor to those above-mentioned, this is the ticket when it comes to ’47-’53 Chevy 3100 chassis—from the perimeter ’rails to the whole package, just like what you’ll find under Speedway Motors Week to Wicked ’52 three-window that we just recently sent out the Tech Center roll-up door.

Now, I will admit, when I first heard we were putting the truck on a bolt-up chassis, I was a bit skeptical. Sure, there are big rigs that utilize similar platforms, but there are different variables involved (and don’t many of the heavier ones use air springs between frame and cab?!). However, despite Speedway engineers’ confidence behind the concept and design, they anticipated skepticism as such, and for those Doubting Thomas types like myself, offer the following: If it’ll make you feel better, nothing’s stopping you from welding the crossmember seams once everything’s bolted together and adjusted … nothing, that is, except the inability to weld proficiently. And there’s a good selling point as well—the nut-and-bolt assembly isn’t a structural issue (unless you’re building a Grave Digger or something of the extreme-use nature), making this the perfect chassis for the non-fabricator Chevy/GMC owner who wants to build his own.

And long story short, that’s just what we did to kick off the five-day thrash turning Speedway Motors’ cream puff 3100 into CT’s second Week to Wicked success story. We may have had quite a few hands involved in the process (not including those holding the video cameras, lighting rigs, candy bars, and so on), but we also had a ridiculously short amount of time in which to finish each portion of the build. It just goes to show, however, that you and a friend or two (would make a perfect father and son project) could easily bust this out in short order—or, take your time and detail every nook and cranny. Either way, if you’ve got a ’47-’53 half-ton and don’t feel like fussing with updating the original frame, fuss no more and give Speedway a holler.

Speedway Motors’ cream puff—an owner-restored ’52 Chevy … about to get torn apart, sparing the stock chassis from being modified (read: labor/fabrication intensive) in favor of rolling a brand-new, already updated chassis underneath (read: no cutting, no welding, just plenty of basic wrench turning).

If you happen to catch the Speedway Motors Week to Wicked as it unfolded live back in January, you saw just how quickly the cab and sheetmetal were separated from the 3100’s chassis. Even without a lift and just a few friends lending a hand, the teardown process is easy—make sure and note/measure the core support, cab, and bed mount heights prior to removal for future reference.

Here’s the new base platform for the Chevy, ready to be bolted together: OE dimension/shape 7-gauge laser-cut and fixture-welded framerails, new radiator support brace, front/rear boxing plates, IFS crossmember, adjustable transmission crossmember, four-link and coilover crossmembers, and a rear fuel tank brace. (Actual IFS components sold separately; this setup will use Speedway’s tubular-arm adjustable coilover option.)

Christian initially assembled the frame using a pair of portable steel work tables. Speedway’s instructions recommend starting from the radiator support and working your way back, as that will allow you to adjust and set the center and rear framerail widths to stock spec—Christian went in reverse order, which we’ll explain in the next step.

Loosely bolted together, the frame was transferred to the lift, where it was then set level, squared and adjusted accordingly, and then bolted up tight. (Having the factory specs handy is highly recommended—they’re easily obtainable online, as are reprints of the original assembly manuals.)

This portion Christian did work from the front to the back, starting with the installation of the IFS—specifically, Speedway’s clever threaded coilover height adjusters, which provide for more fine-tuning than just cranking up/down on the coil springs.

The standard (non-dropped) spindle setup uses a GM 11-inch disc brake and power rack-and-pinion steering.

Moving on back, the triangulated four-link frame brackets were installed in their preset locations.

The chromoly link bars were loosely assembled and left hanging…while Christian tended to the supplied 9-inch rearend housing, which required assembly of the third member and axles.

Meanwhile, the frame-mount brake pedal assembly was located and mounted. Word of caution here: to avoid any potential brake pedal interference with the engine and/or firewall, this can definitely wait until the drivetrain is in its final position and the cab reinstalled.

As soon as Christian had the Speedway limited-slip differential and 31-spline axle assembly together, the 9-inch was hung from the patiently waiting four-link with the adjustable coilovers. The e-brake equipped disc brake kit was installed at this point as well.

Next, the rear brake line kit was assembled onto the rearend, followed by the initial adjustment of the four-link. (If you’re wondering why the brake rotors/calipers aren’t on as previously shown—our “roller” wheels did not clear, so the brakes were removed until the truck’s Rocket Racing five-spokes returned from the tire shop.)

And there you have it, the Speedway chassis assembled and ready to roll in no time flat. But we’re not done—there’s still the business of installing cab/running board mounts, as well as fitting all that sheetmetal.

Original running board brackets were sourced and installed on the new frame using the stock chassis for location reference. (Here’s an area where having those aforementioned factory specs will come in handy.)

The new chassis was ready to meet its cab mate for the first time in preparation of locating and installing the forward cab mounts, which as with the running board brackets are repurposed originals with new rubber.

Referring to those notes you were supposed to take when taking all the sheetmetal off in the first place will help get everything close to where it needs to be on the new chassis. It won’t all fall into place and line up perfectly from the get-go, especially when using new bed mounts, which may vary in size compared to your old ones.

The final portion of sheetmetal installation can be a bit more tedious. Once the cab, bed, and rear fenders were all mounted and the drivetrain in place, the entire front clip was set onto the frame. Wood blocks between the stock core support and the Speedway radiator support brace allowed the clip to be aligned with the cab in order to bolt the fenders on, which ultimately determined the spacer height for the core support.

After a solid week’s worth of wrench turning around a maze of video camera operators, the Week to Wicked build team turned the old straight-axled hauler into a comfy cruiser, due in no small part to using Speedway’s bolt-together chassis. Something to keep in mind if you’ve got a ’47-’53 GM 1⁄2-ton—but no time (or desire) to fuss with what lies beneath.

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