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PLAYER
Player name: Rose
Contact: Junabi on Plurk. IonizedThread#6948 on discord
Characters currently in-game: Seto Kaiba

CHARACTER
Character Name: Goku Son
Character Age: 19 (+ 500 years spent outside of time in a cave)
Canon: Gensomaden Saiyuki
Canon Point: 2 years into the Journey, end of Saiyuki Reload / beginning of Saiyuki Reload Blast
History:
Son Goku Wiki page

The above webpage is incomplete in areas so I have also included his history here.
Gensomaden Saiyuki is based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West, in which a Buddhist monk travels to India to obtain sacred texts with three demon companions. Goku is based on one of the monk’s companions; Sun Wukong aka The Monkey King.

The story takes place in Shangri La which is a pseudo historical China. There are three main races in Shangri La; humans, demons, and gods. Humans and demons coexist for the most part on the Earth and the Gods watch them from heaven, bored out of their minds.
Goku is none of these races. He was born on a mountain from the Earth itself as the Seiten Taisei; The Great Sage Equaling Heaven. According to the gods he is a heretical being, his very birth against nature. His golden eyes prove his heretical state as only the worst of being are born with golden eyes. To stop his powers they placed a golden diadem on his head and took him to Heaven. All demons can be limited using man-made devices called “demon power limiters.” They usually take the form of jewelry so they can always be worn and easily removed when necessary. Goku is too powerful for normal limiters to work on him. Only the god made diadem can suppress his powers.

During his brief time in heaven, he was put under the care of Konzen Douji because the Merciful Goddess Konzeon Botastu thought it was funny to make her nephew Konzen babysit. Goku had three other friends in Heaven: Tenpou, Kenren, and Nataku. Tenpou was a field marshal of heaven’s army and one of Konzen’s friends, who took an interest in Goku and turned into his teacher. Kenren was one of Tenpou’s solders, who Goku liked because he was so laidback. Nataku was the current war god and Goku’s best friend after Konzen. Nataku was the same age, liked to play pranks and even more importantly had golden eyes just like he did.

The Gods are very concerned about their purity, and the most important rule to protect that is to never kill. The only ones in heaven who can kill or be killed are heretical being (those with golden eyes). Konzen, Tenpou, and Kenren knew that the only reason Goku was brought to heaven was to be the next war god, but didn’t want to ruin Goku’s innocence by telling him the truth. The current war god Nataku was specially engineered by his father to have golden eyes so that he could become a war god. His father was successfully using Nataku to rise to power, when Goku (a being with naturally golden eyes and potentially more powerful than Nataku) showed up.

Nataku’s father ordered him to kill Goku before that could happen, but Nataku wasn’t able to do it and turned his sword on himself right in front of Goku. Up until that point Goku had lived a very peaceful and sheltered life. He didn’t know how to handle watching his friend kill himself, and the intense emotions he felt were too strong for his diadem to control. The diadem broke, and the Seiten Taisei awoke in the middle of a hall surrounded by gods.

Within minutes all of the gods around him had been slaughtered. Eventually the Merciful Goddess was able to subdue him long enough for Konzen, Tenpou, and Kenren to get him out of there. Knowing there was no safe place for him in Heaven they tried to flee to Earth. However Kenren, then Tenpou and finally Konzen were killed on the way. Konzen was killed at the door to Earth holding it open for Goku who had to watch him be crushed to death.

After the dust settled in heaven, they sentenced Goku to 500 years of imprisonment on top of Mount Gogyou for killing the gods. The Merciful Goddess carried out the orders. She found him curled up next to the door to Earth still crying over losing his friends. The Merciful Goddess removed all memories Goku had of his time in heaven and locked him his cave prison cell. She left him only his name because he had been so happy when Konzen had given it to him that she couldn’t bring herself to take it away.

Goku was chained to a wall in the cave for the full 500 years. He had no idea why. All he knew was that his name was Goku and that his name was important for some reason. He lived each day to watch the sun come up and feel its warmth, only to feel cold and lonely every time it set. He often wished that he couldn’t see the sun at all because then he wouldn’t have yearned for it. During the 500 years he had one friend; a yellow bird that came through the bars of his prison. It was his only company and reminded him of the sun even after it had set. Then one day he woke up and saw the bird lying motionless outside his bars. He panicked and tried to reach it, but it was just outside his reach. And it stayed there right outside his bars until it either rotted or was blown away.

He had no idea he was doing it, but the entire time Goku was imprisoned he mentally called out to Konzen. It wasn’t until the end of his sentence that Konzen finally made it back to him. Konzen’s reincarnation, Genjo Sanzo, was fed up with the constant racket of his calls and came to see who was shouting so he could get them to shut up. Sanzo reached out his hand to Goku and as soon as they touched his chains disappeared marking the end of his imprisonment.

From that point on Goku followed Sanzo like a loyal puppy. Sanzo was the head Buddhist priest at Keiun temple in Chang’an, so that is where Goku grew up the second time. The other monks in the temple absolutely despised him. Despite his imprisonment he was still an innocent child or, as Sanzo kept calling him, a Stupid Monkey. The monks could try to teach him proper behaviors all they wanted but it never stuck. The only one Goku listened to without argument (usually) was Sanzo. He climbed sacred trees, ate sacred peaches and brought dirty animals into the temple to run around the floors the other monks had just washed. And he never had any idea why the monks were always so mad at him. He didn’t get it when Sanzo hit him with a paper fan and told him to stop either, but he always did because it was Sanzo who asked.

Goku found the temple very boring, but sometimes when Sanzo got an assignment from the three aspects he would let Goku come with. Those assignments were always fun, because he got to leave the temple and meet people. During one of those assignments he met Gojyo and Hakkai. Gojyo was a lecherous half-breed (half demon half human) who was also the reincarnation of Kenren. Hakkai was a human who had bathed in the blood of a thousand demons and was turned into a demon himself. He was also the reincarnation of Tenpou.

That’s when shit hit the fan.

Demons and humans had always lived in relative peace together. Demons were stronger, so naturally there were always a few who would try to enslave some humans, and in most cities demons were considered second class citizens. That was until the minus wave. The bad guys were trying to revive the demon Gyumaoh using a forbidden mix of magic and science. This sent the minus wave throughout Shangri-la and caused most demons to completely lose their sense of self and go berserk.

Sanzo was ordered to stop the resurrection of Gyumaoh with Goku, Gokyo and Hakkai. Thus their never-ending journey west began.

This is already very long, but basically every day they drive in Hakuryu (a tiny white dragon that turns into a jeep), go to towns, fight demons in said towns, get attacked by demons outside of said towns, and keep trying to get to India to stop the minus wave. After 2 years on the road they’ve finally made it to the Himalayas.

Personality:
There are two personalities to go over; without diadem and with diadem.

Without Diadem:
This could be said to be his true nature; untamed and untamable. The Seiten Taisei acts on instinct, not because he’s stupid but because he’s without a culture to bind him to any other way of acting. He is the only one of his kind. He is powerful and he knows it. Everything else in the world is a toy for him. He enjoys killing because he thinks it’s funny. He will continue to attack someone even after they’re already down because why not? Who’s going to stop him? He is intelligent, and can learn quickly, but most of that learning is directed only to fighting and stalking prey.

With Diadem:
With his power contained he is a complete innocent, or rather he was. Being raised by a monk who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and tries to shoot everything he finds annoying leaves a mark. Then you add Gojyo who does all of those things and also makes a living by gambling and hitting on anything that moves, and Hakkai who just laughs at all of this instead of explaining that it’s wrong and you get Goku. He has quite a few bad habits from all of that, including swearing, showing care through insults and solving problems through yelling and violence. He hasn’t picked up the other bad habits because he doesn’t want to smoke, Sanzo won’t let him drink, he sucks at gambling and he doesn’t understand why he would want to hit on anything. He’s very much the younger brother invited to a frat party.

He’s like a small child learning by example and lessons from his older mentors. Or more accurately he’s like a monkey learning how to be human. He’s actually very intelligent and able to pick things up quickly. In heaven, Tenpou mentioned that he had learned to read faster than anyone he’d ever seen before (of course that was erased with everything else and he had to relearn at the temple). What makes him seem stupid is his trusting nature and that his starting point of view is so different than a human’s. Humans are taught as they grow up and learn by example. Goku’s formative years were erased and then spent in a cave. He’s several years behind in his learning compared to how old he looks. His bios say he’s 19, but he’s been in civilization for less than 10 years. He’s grown considerably more mature and learned about the world during the journey, but he’s still overly trusting and confused sometimes.

Like the Seiten Taisei he acts on instinct most of the time. The big difference between the two is that without the huge rush of power, Goku is entranced by everything instead of disdainfully amused by it. He still feels some of that power and therefore isn’t afraid of being hurt. That without the bloodlust of the Seiten Taisei leads him to be very trusting because he feels completely secure in almost every situation. Both want to explore the things around them; the Seiten Taisei by destroying and Goku by learning and experiencing.

Another thing he shares with the Seiten Taisei is that he fights for fun. Part of almost never being afraid is that fighting is fun for him. Therefore it’s something friends should do together because then everyone is having fun! Spending all of his time on the journey west trading quips with Sanzo, Gojyo and Hakkai while they destroy hoards of demons daily means he hasn’t been dissuaded of this idea.

His greatest joy is his friends and his greatest fear is to be alone. He remembers being alone for such a long time, and he never wants to go back to it. He won’t let anything happen to his friends, especially Sanzo who was his savior (in two life times). He wants everyone to live happily and he honestly has a great deal of trouble understanding why some people or demons would do something that would make someone else unhappy. He doesn’t think of personal gain and will never understand why it’s so important to some people.

Part of his innocent trust is that he’s incapable of being prejudiced even if others are towards him. There have been many towns where he meets someone, and becomes their friend only to find out that they hate him because he’s a demon, and he doesn’t let it get to him for longer than a minute. One example was the first town they stopped in where he made good friends with a local girl who was a great cook. Her sister had been killed by demons and she frequently stated that she hated all of them. When she found of Goku was a demon she yelled at him for tricking her and said that she hated him. His response was to protect her anyway and when asked why he said “Demons, or humans…I don’t care as long as her cooking is good.”

Which brings us to another point; Goku loves to eat. He is constantly hungry. The fastest way to become his friend is to feed him. The quickest way to get your ass kicked is to steal his food. He stated that he was never hungry the entire 500 years he was in the cage. Now that he's out, he enjoys food far more than he should.

As long as he’s fed and not alone, nothing can faze him. He can be chased out of a town, but as long as he’s chased out with friends and after he ate it’ll only affect him for a minute or two. If he didn’t get to eat first he might be sad for a whole hour or until he gets food (whichever comes first). The only thing that will affect him and continue to affect him is if his friends are sad, hurt or leaving him. That’s x100 if it’s Sanzo sad, hurt or leaving him.

He lives in the moment, and wouldn’t want to be any other way.
Inventory:
Goku will arrive in Hadriel with two magical items; his diadem and Nyoi Bo. The diadem is his demon power limiter introduced above, and further explained in the abilities section.

Nyoi Bo is a staff that he can call from thin air. It’s able to change size and split into a 3 piece nunchaku.

Abilities: As with personality, there are two sets of abilities to go over: with diadem and without diadem. He always has all of his powers, but they are immensely stronger without the diadem. Removing the diadem will be saved for plot purposes only. Goku doesn’t want to become the Seitan Taisei and accidentally hurt people. If the diadem is taken off, another character will have to kill him or put it back on his head. If it’s broken the only way to stop the Seiten Taisei is to kill him, which will not be easy, unless Hadriel’s gods can create a new one.

With his diadem, Goku is a very proficient fighter. He can fight unarmed or with Nyoi Bo. Compared to a human he had super strength, super speed, and is hard to hurt. He’s not indestructible by any means, but it takes a lot to take him down. He’s almost never defeated in the series. The first time he was defeated by the priest Kami-sama a year into the journey, he had an existential crisis because it had never happened before.

He also has heightened senses, particularly his sense of smell. His extrasensory perception is also strong. Psychic phenomenon will often make him feel sick because he’s so sensitive to it.

Without the diadem, he becomes the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. His demon-like features are no longer suppressed including pointed ears, slit pupils and razor-sharp claws and fangs. His speed and power increases to the point of being able to kill lower gods with a single swipe of his claws. He also has a strong chi, with the force of his awakening being enough to send weaker fighters flying. He’s connected to the Earth and is able to manipulate it to heal himself. At one point in the series, he was dying from multiple gun shot wounds so Hakkai removed his diadem. He was able to draw on power from the Earth to heal himself and begin attacking as though nothing had happened. Essentially, he’s a killing machine who can regenerate.

Flaws:
His major flaw is that he’s a glutton. If he’s not eating, he’s thinking about eating. If he’s not thinking about eating, he’s probably unconscious and when he comes to, the first words out of his mouth will be “I’m hungry.”

He also kills a lot. Besides all of the gods he was imprisoned for killing, he fights demons daily. These are demons that until the minus wave were nice people and have now gone irreversibly crazy. They tend to attack in packs, so he’s getting double digits at a time.

SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Link to Test Drive meme