Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26184570-20160806040310

Here is a group of characters I use for any RP involving a generic near-future Earth setting.

Akihi Dobunaga:

The young, half-Ainu-half-Papuan diplomat who lives in a small but high-quality penthouse in downtown Tokyo, with his daughter, pet parrot and Cookie Monster (you'll see). He's gotten shit down, included but not limited to making several US protectorates into states and establishing shinkansen all through India and Southeast Asia. He has a passion for Shinkansen, and Plarail.

Hiriko Dobunaga: 

His addopted Okinawan daughter, who is a master of Shotokan Karate and total badass, even though though she is only 9 years old.

Makali Dobunaga:

Akihi's Papuan father. Very wise, and with a wacky sense of humor.

Hotene Dobunaga:

Makali's badass Ainu wife. One of the few people left who can speak Ainu, in fact she invented a script for it, and aided in the Ainu linguistic revitalization.

Aviva Cohen:

Akihi's best friend, and possible love interest. She is a Jew of mixed ancestry (Ashkenazic, Sephardic and much more), and quite brilliant. Hiriko sees her as a sort of mother figure, and always bugs Akihi about admiting his feelings towards her.

Yangoge:

The black palm cockatoo who lives with Akihi and Hiriko. Akihi maintains that Yangoge is the smartest one of them all.

Cookie Monster:

A few decades from now, when bio-androids will be invented, Cookie Monster will happen, and he will live with a young, mixed-race Japanese politician who addopted a Karate master.

Abaskuul Sharmáke:

Aviva and Akihi's best friend. He is quite literally a Somalian sommelier, much to the amusement of everyone he knows. His parents came to Japan right after they were married to escape the troublesome situation in Somalia. 