加藤 清正 【Katō Kiyomasa】 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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soul_campaign2012-02-20 10:15 am
incites) wrote in soul_campaign2012-02-20 10:15 am
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[Video // Backdated to the 24th]
Hello, residents of Death City - friends, comrades and fellow soldiers in this war. My name is Kato Kiyomasa and I come to you today bearing news that brings me great sorrow. I have been long overdue in making this known and perhaps it has already been realized by many of you - it is time for me to cease mourning my loss and bring forth the news that I have kept hidden for so long.
[Kiyomasa clears his throat, taking a breath before proceeding.]
To those who may recall him, a man known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi - perhaps better known to some of you as Hashiba Hideyoshi - has left this city. While some may find it a relief to know a friend has returned to his homeland, I must bear grave news - the man you may have come to know has been dead for some time. [He slowly exhales, it's a difficult thing to admit. After being filled with such elation and joy to witness the man alive here once more, to know he will not get the chance to laugh and serve by Hideyoshi's side again is a painful revelation.]
Lord Hideyoshi was a man I deeply respected, my loyalty to the House of Toyotomi is one that knows no bounds. Even in death, it is in his name that I serve. He was more than simply a Lord to me, more than a man who's ideals and values I was content to call my own - he took me in as a child, raised me as his own and for that, I looked to him as my own father.
Whenever a battle would occur, whenever a heavy siege would be brought down across our countryside, there was one belief my lord held - and it was that all things can be rebuilt. In the wake of this earthquake, I offer my services to those who wish to repair this city to its former glory. Though the damage has been light, there are still many districts that have fallen. In my Lord's name, I will assist in any way that I can.
[There's another small pause before he continues - he isn't certain how to make a private post, so this will have to do:]
To those from the other Hi-no-Moto... I feel there may be questions you have for me. I welcome them and shall answer with due honesty. [Though he was not necessarily lying when he arrived and told them he served the Tokugawa.]
[ooc: Thiiiiis is long, long overdue. Actually any Kiyomasa post as a whole is long overdue. In before "wait we still have a Kiyomasa?" because yes, we do. Tags might be a bit delayed, I am currently sick as dog and... will probably be going to lay down now.]
[Kiyomasa clears his throat, taking a breath before proceeding.]
To those who may recall him, a man known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi - perhaps better known to some of you as Hashiba Hideyoshi - has left this city. While some may find it a relief to know a friend has returned to his homeland, I must bear grave news - the man you may have come to know has been dead for some time. [He slowly exhales, it's a difficult thing to admit. After being filled with such elation and joy to witness the man alive here once more, to know he will not get the chance to laugh and serve by Hideyoshi's side again is a painful revelation.]
Lord Hideyoshi was a man I deeply respected, my loyalty to the House of Toyotomi is one that knows no bounds. Even in death, it is in his name that I serve. He was more than simply a Lord to me, more than a man who's ideals and values I was content to call my own - he took me in as a child, raised me as his own and for that, I looked to him as my own father.
Whenever a battle would occur, whenever a heavy siege would be brought down across our countryside, there was one belief my lord held - and it was that all things can be rebuilt. In the wake of this earthquake, I offer my services to those who wish to repair this city to its former glory. Though the damage has been light, there are still many districts that have fallen. In my Lord's name, I will assist in any way that I can.
[There's another small pause before he continues - he isn't certain how to make a private post, so this will have to do:]
To those from the other Hi-no-Moto... I feel there may be questions you have for me. I welcome them and shall answer with due honesty. [Though he was not necessarily lying when he arrived and told them he served the Tokugawa.]
[ooc: Thiiiiis is long, long overdue. Actually any Kiyomasa post as a whole is long overdue. In before "wait we still have a Kiyomasa?" because yes, we do. Tags might be a bit delayed, I am currently sick as dog and... will probably be going to lay down now.]
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I feel that is you I owe a greater explanation to... I must stress that have not deceived you when I said I serve the Tokugawa.
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I thank you for the faith you place in me - but an explanation is still owed, you have been fair and honest with me in my time here, I owe you the same courtesy.
[He lifts his head and begins-]
As I have stated, I hold very deep roots with the Toyotomi - my loyalty towards Lord Hideyoshi is unmatched by any other. Yet as I have stated, the world it is that I come from, Lord Hideyoshi has been dead for some time. In his stead, in the struggle for power, it is Mitsunari who has chosen to rise up in an attempt to fulfil Hideyoshi's will... But his efforts are little more than an act of foolishness, a waste of a great man's ambition. It is by Mitsunari's command that the Toyotomi legacy shall see its ruin, so I have taken my brother and our armies towards the East, shaking off my pride and prostrating myself before the Tokugawa in order to preserve my Lord's dignity and the clan's honour.
In my heart, I shall always be a man of the Toyotomi. In name, I follow the Tokugawa... And it is my pride as a man of the Toyotomi, my duty as a man of Osaka, to preserve my Lord's house. I will always pursue my Lord's ambition - but Mitsunari is not my Lord.
He may be one of my brothers but so long as there is blood that runs through these veins, I shall never follow that fool.
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Have you spoken to the Mitsunari who happens to be in Death City at the moment?
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My Lord requested that I do my best to get along with that particular Mitsunari. I did so by avoiding contact with him... As you may recall, he and I did not see eye to eye when we gathered some time ago for a meeting between our respective worlds.
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[and with that, Kiyomasa disconnects.]