Character Name: Ide:Hio<br/>Clan: Unicorn<br/>Family: Ide<br/>School: Ide Emissary School<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sD8czHgJeCcv8tA1R9NuXfSo_L_tEhg139kTZ34HEV0/edit</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">20 questions</div><div class="spoiler_body">20 Questions:<br/>1: What Clan Do you belong to? Unicorn<br/>2: What Family does your character belong to? The Ide family.<br/>3: I am Courtier of the Unicorn Clan and the esteemed Ide family.<br/>4: How would others describe your character's appearance?comely and of practical elegance<br/>5: What is your Character’s primary motivation? By my service in the courts in the name of Emperor, Clan and Family I hope balance my service with my soft-hearted nature.<br/>6: Who is the person your character trusts most in the world? Utaku Beniha, his childhood friend.<br/>7:What is your Character’s greatest strength and weakness? It is my Compassion, it helps me in my role as a diplomat but I still worry that a day may come that will test my dedication to such and I will chose compassion over reason. So thus my personal strength can also be my greatest weakness.<br/>8: What does your character think of bushido? Bushido it is the code which provides order to our society and I with others of my family hold compassion in high regard as a tenant of the code of bushido.<br/>9:What is your Character’s opinion of his clan? We are a clan of  eclectic fellows but we are no less loyal or honorable then the rest of the clans. We being insiders with an outsider's perspective is our greatest strength.<br/>10: Is your character married? Yes or at least  I am promised  to Akodo, Miyu and sadly it seems it will be a bitter one as a member of my clan slew her husband to be  and to mend the insult I have been left to wed her and I worry having to fulfill my duty to Clan and Family will bring her suffering which will be the hardest burden to bear.<br/>11:Does your character have any prejudices? If i had any it comes from me being frustrated with bridging the gap with the lion for them  only valuing us as strong fighters we hope with time the will value us for everything we bring to the Empire.<br/>12: To whom does your character owe the most Loyalty? That would be my father who I worked with after my gempuku overseeing the merchant caravans.<br/>13: What are your Character’s favorite and least favorite things?His Favorite thing: Would be indulging in his hobby riding horses. It was  his favorite activity to do with his childhood friend Utaku Beniha Least favorite thing  Killing it just goes against who he is as a person.<br/>14:Does your character have any recurring  mannerisms? Yes when thinking or engaged in intellectual pursuits he plays with the end of his bangs.<br/>15: What about your Character’s emotions? Anger is his easily controlled emotion. Sadness is his hardest to control since being such a caring individual having to confront the harshness of life in rokugan given his station.<br/>16:How would your character handle a subordinate’s improper  behavior? For most smaller transgressions he would handle it as an opportunity to learn from one's failures and encourage reflection  and contemplation to improve the failing. For more serious transgressions he would turn them over to appropriate higher authorities understanding he would lack the conviction to order seppuku or execution.<br/>17: How would your character’s  parents describe him? Albeit to kind they are proud of him and worry that his future in service to clan and family maybe a harsh path for him.<br/>18:What is your character's highest ambition? To be the best diplomat in service to clan and emperor. To provide service and resolve conflicts with words before blades become necessary. Maybe to become someone to mold future courtiers to seek peace before the threat of war or unnecessary conflict.<br/>19:Very religious, it is one of the supports in his life as someone driven by compassion to help him make it through the realities and hardships that are ahead of him.<br/>20:How will my Character die? He would meet his end most likely trying to end a conflict through diplomacy with adversaries that only seek war. His reasons behind this would be that  the lives of those  dragged into the war can serve the empire better by living by being fathers, son, daughters and all the roles in life that can make a life fulfilled.</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Background</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ide Hio grew up an average childhood for a member a great clan studying and learning he met the expectations of his family and became a skilled courtier. In Between his studies he would spend time with his most trusted childhood friend Utaku Beniha and the bonded over riding horses even though for Hio it was a hobby and for Beniha it was a way of life. He even met the challenge of his Gempuku right with the same dedication and compassion and honesty he had throughout his training. It was good fortune he was born into the Ide family due to how strong his compassionate nature was with him. It gave him a place to serve his family and clan without having to face the challenges of being a bushi that lacked the ability to kill.<br/><br/>After his Gempuku, he traveled with his father working the caravans negotiating trade deals and overseeing the commerce of the family and honing his diplomat skills however this time period<br/>would change Hio's life with a event outside of his control. This is what happened. An Ikoma and his retinue were also traveling through Akodo lands at the same time the Ide caravan were traveling and set down for the evening and invited the Ikoma retinue to enjoy an evening of drinking and stories. As the Sake flowed and insults started getting slung about one of the caravan guard's and the Ikoma got to heated and before the Ide could calm the tensions blades were drawn and the Ide guard killed the Ikoma.This lead to his life of being a hostage to the Lion clan and a replacement spouse but the Mourning lion wife kept making trips to shrines or an y plausible delay to the wedding and left him to travel with his guard and watcher the sister of the bride to be Akodo Narumi.<br/></div></div>