I am interested in the game, but understand that priority will go to those who have less experience than me in PBP.
Experience: I am running one game, and am in one as well. Other than this I was briefly in another, so I am still relatively new, but not inexperienced.
Archetype: Mage
Brief note on character: Born and raised to be privileged Hitoshi grew up without a care in the world. his father was a higher ranking Yakuza with the ear of the Oyabun, his mother a dutiful Japanese with a head for business. Hitoshi was an only child and both his parents loved him dearly, that was until his awakening. It's not a perfect world and many families have been ripped apart by the new world you see iron the Trids all the time, but to actually witness it first hand is another story. The Yakuza do not trust Mages and his father was Yakuza. Hitoshi turned his childhood idol into a monster and his fathers pride, into shame and hatred. Before the Oyabun of the clan could find out his fathers disgrace, Hitoshi's mother got him out of Seattle and the Yakuzas path. Though she told him it was only to save face, Hitoshi still prays that it was their love that gave him this kinder fate than death. At times he wished they had not done him this service. Thrown for the high class neighborhoods of Seattle, to what seemed like halfway across the world to the streets of New York, Hitoshi learned the streets the hard way. If it weren't for Merlin's pride, a street gang in Manhattan's Pit, he would have died there as well. Hitoshi has a new family, and a new life, though he misses his old one he can not go back to it. He dreams of one day returning to Seattle rescuing his parents from themselves and regaining his first family his new one provides him with the shelter he needs to continue on with his life.
I would prefer to place the game in one of the more well fleshed out cities like Seattle or Denver, we can set it wherever everyone chooses though. I can come up with a reason for Hitoshi to end up there.