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Information: Kaidan
Mar. 16th, 2015 09:55 pm☯ Information: Kaidan RP ☯
| canon | Sengoku Strays
| character name | Oda Kazusanosuke Nobunaga
| character age | 19
| AU background |
Oda Kazusanosuke Nobunaga is the young and untried lord of Owari Province, newly risen to power after his father Nobuhide's death. A regular hellion from his earliest days, he has an unfortunate (and mostly true) reputation of being rude, misbehaved and generally more interested in swimming, hunting and wandering around, without regard to his station, than in making anything of himself and his province. He is known far and wide as the 'Fool of Owari'.
This is all sorts of unfortunate, as Owari suffers from both external and internal problems. A commander who rose to power by his brilliance and the love of his people, Nobuhide has made enemies of his own kinsmen, and of the neighboring Imagawa clan of Suruga and Saitou clan of Mino. When his eldest son Nobunaga was sixteen, Nobuhide had arranged for him to marry Nouhime, daughter of the Saitou clan's head, Saitou Dousan. This gained a tentative alliance that allowed peace between Owari and Mino at least for a time and held hostilities in check.
Three years later, Nobuhide died abruptly and Nobunaga became lord of Owari, to the distress of most everyone. Mistrusted by his father's retainers and mistrusting them in turn, he instead surrounded himself with misfits and "strays", younger sons without prospects, but with talent, who owed him everything. One stray of particular importance fell into his hands as he was campaigning against the Yamaguchi Clan, who has betrayed him and allied with the Imagawa. When conquering their castle at Narumi, he rescued a feisty teenage girl by the name of Kusanagi Kasane, who turned out to be young youkai lost among humans. Kasane intrigued Nobunaga from the first with her spirit, her strangeness and her propensity for heroics, speeches and heroic speeches. He took her in at his tome at Nagoya castle, and she would repay that favor in spades later on.
With the Yamaguchi subdued, Nobunaga was ready to tackle the next threat: Kiyosu Castle and its lord, Oda Nobutomo, head of the rival branch of Oda clan. In their first clash, he used the excuse of throwing the mouthy Kasane into the Kayatsu river to send his Three Fools to spot and halt the Kiyosu army's vanguard that has just attacked a village along the way. He then swooped in and took the same army from the rear, easily overpowering it. With the same ease, he quelled a peasant uprising that had baffled his younger brother Nobuyuki. In a prime example of his rather unusual methods, he started out by terrifying said peasants half to death, then sat down with them over some rice balls and let them know of his plan. He offered to to relocate them to more fertile land, then charge them twice the taxes for the much increased quantity of food that they would then produce. for their trouble, since now they'll be able to pay them. The peasants approved, and Nobunaga won some desperately needed popularity.
While he had been dealing with this internal problem, great things were happening in Mino and Kiyosu. Saitou Dousan's rebellious son, Yoshitatsu, had allied himself with Nobutomo and with Oda Nobuyasu of Iwakura Castle. Learning of this development, and foreseeing the consequences, Nobunaga put a plan into motion sending out his informant Kinoshita Tokichiro in secret to Dousan's Inabayama Castle. No sooner than Tokichiro had departed, did three armies have set out to conquer Owari.
Nobunaga met Yoshitatsu's and his own kinsmen's forces as Nobutomo was preparing to cross the bridge between Kiyosu and Nagoya. The Owari soldiers toppled the bridge; Yoshitatsu's personal troops ambushed them and ran them toward Mino's cavalry of heavy gunners. Only some brilliant to mildly insane tactical trickery by Nobunaga saved the day, allowing his army to crash through Yoshitatsu's men and head for Nobutomo's forces, still disorganized from wading the river. Nobunaga wounded Nobutomo and scattered all three armies; for his trouble, he got a talking-to from Kasane for the personal risk he took in his tactical maneuvers. This was fine - it was just for this sheer stupid nerve that he liked her.
Regrouping quickly, Yoshitatsu's next plan had him building a "one-day-castle", a temporary fortress, within the borders of Owari, once again with Nobutomo's and Nobuyasu's help. This proved the final straw for Nouhime - Yoshitatsu's younger sister - who was ready to take her own life for shame over this gross breach of the alliance between the clans. It was Kasane who took charge of talked her down while Nobunaga silently looked on; but he let his army know, once rallied, that Yoshitatsu had all hell coming his way. Again out-thinking Yoshitatsu, he left behind in Nagoya a select force conveniently placed to stop the troops that Yoshitatsu had sent to kidnap Nouhime while the main army was away.
The battle that followed was a much harder one: Yoshitatsu and the rebellious Oda branch easily outnumbered and outgunned the forces of Owari. While his generals and even his brother were clamoring for retreat, Nobunaga pressed on, his confidence inspiring tender-hearted Nobuyuki to heroics of his own. Just as all seemed lost, however, Nobunaga's original plan finally came to fruition: Tokichiro appeared on the battlefield with no other than Saitou Dousan, who was appalled at his son's behavior and forced him to retreat in disgrace. Nobutomo and Nobuyasu too then had to admit final defeat, and that was the end of in-fighting within the Oda Clan and Owari Province.
That peace did not last long, but its breaking actually turned out to be in Nobunaga's favor. After Saitou Dousan's death, Yoshitatsu - at last lord of Mino and drunk with his new power - dismissed his earlier defeats and made no effort to prepare for the battle that all others in Mino and Owari knew were coming. When at last Nobunaga engaged Yoshitatsu's strategist, Takenaka Hanbei, in battle, he was able to crush the Mino forces despite Hanbei's genius. Once again, the former informant Tokichiro, now general Hashiba Hideyoshi, had prevailed, this time building a one-day-castle of his own for his lord's gunners. Nobunaga killed Yoshitatsu, ended the Saitou Clan and seized Mino for himself.
With these two great threats removed, and the Imagawa placid under their overconfident leader Yoshimoto, Nobunaga now had the time to turn his sights a little further - namely to Edo, the capital, his final goal, where very strange things were rumored to be happening. While in provincial Owari there was not much news to be had, this was when Kasane stepped in once again. She gave her lord the youkai scroll - and a firm talking-to, pleading with him to stay in Owari and use the scroll to keep an eye on things in the Hojo region. Being himself, Nobunaga took the scroll, then took a handful of retainers and rode off to the Hojo region anyway, which she should have anticipated, honestly.
Nobunaga has entered the vicinity of Edo without fanfare, going by an assumed name - Kusanagi Kotetsu, after one of Kasane's brothers - and avoiding any sorts of lordly displays. For now, he only wants to watch and learn. Conquest will come later.
| canon | Sengoku Strays
| character name | Oda Kazusanosuke Nobunaga
| character age | 19
| AU background |
Oda Kazusanosuke Nobunaga is the young and untried lord of Owari Province, newly risen to power after his father Nobuhide's death. A regular hellion from his earliest days, he has an unfortunate (and mostly true) reputation of being rude, misbehaved and generally more interested in swimming, hunting and wandering around, without regard to his station, than in making anything of himself and his province. He is known far and wide as the 'Fool of Owari'.
This is all sorts of unfortunate, as Owari suffers from both external and internal problems. A commander who rose to power by his brilliance and the love of his people, Nobuhide has made enemies of his own kinsmen, and of the neighboring Imagawa clan of Suruga and Saitou clan of Mino. When his eldest son Nobunaga was sixteen, Nobuhide had arranged for him to marry Nouhime, daughter of the Saitou clan's head, Saitou Dousan. This gained a tentative alliance that allowed peace between Owari and Mino at least for a time and held hostilities in check.
Three years later, Nobuhide died abruptly and Nobunaga became lord of Owari, to the distress of most everyone. Mistrusted by his father's retainers and mistrusting them in turn, he instead surrounded himself with misfits and "strays", younger sons without prospects, but with talent, who owed him everything. One stray of particular importance fell into his hands as he was campaigning against the Yamaguchi Clan, who has betrayed him and allied with the Imagawa. When conquering their castle at Narumi, he rescued a feisty teenage girl by the name of Kusanagi Kasane, who turned out to be young youkai lost among humans. Kasane intrigued Nobunaga from the first with her spirit, her strangeness and her propensity for heroics, speeches and heroic speeches. He took her in at his tome at Nagoya castle, and she would repay that favor in spades later on.
With the Yamaguchi subdued, Nobunaga was ready to tackle the next threat: Kiyosu Castle and its lord, Oda Nobutomo, head of the rival branch of Oda clan. In their first clash, he used the excuse of throwing the mouthy Kasane into the Kayatsu river to send his Three Fools to spot and halt the Kiyosu army's vanguard that has just attacked a village along the way. He then swooped in and took the same army from the rear, easily overpowering it. With the same ease, he quelled a peasant uprising that had baffled his younger brother Nobuyuki. In a prime example of his rather unusual methods, he started out by terrifying said peasants half to death, then sat down with them over some rice balls and let them know of his plan. He offered to to relocate them to more fertile land, then charge them twice the taxes for the much increased quantity of food that they would then produce. for their trouble, since now they'll be able to pay them. The peasants approved, and Nobunaga won some desperately needed popularity.
While he had been dealing with this internal problem, great things were happening in Mino and Kiyosu. Saitou Dousan's rebellious son, Yoshitatsu, had allied himself with Nobutomo and with Oda Nobuyasu of Iwakura Castle. Learning of this development, and foreseeing the consequences, Nobunaga put a plan into motion sending out his informant Kinoshita Tokichiro in secret to Dousan's Inabayama Castle. No sooner than Tokichiro had departed, did three armies have set out to conquer Owari.
Nobunaga met Yoshitatsu's and his own kinsmen's forces as Nobutomo was preparing to cross the bridge between Kiyosu and Nagoya. The Owari soldiers toppled the bridge; Yoshitatsu's personal troops ambushed them and ran them toward Mino's cavalry of heavy gunners. Only some brilliant to mildly insane tactical trickery by Nobunaga saved the day, allowing his army to crash through Yoshitatsu's men and head for Nobutomo's forces, still disorganized from wading the river. Nobunaga wounded Nobutomo and scattered all three armies; for his trouble, he got a talking-to from Kasane for the personal risk he took in his tactical maneuvers. This was fine - it was just for this sheer stupid nerve that he liked her.
Regrouping quickly, Yoshitatsu's next plan had him building a "one-day-castle", a temporary fortress, within the borders of Owari, once again with Nobutomo's and Nobuyasu's help. This proved the final straw for Nouhime - Yoshitatsu's younger sister - who was ready to take her own life for shame over this gross breach of the alliance between the clans. It was Kasane who took charge of talked her down while Nobunaga silently looked on; but he let his army know, once rallied, that Yoshitatsu had all hell coming his way. Again out-thinking Yoshitatsu, he left behind in Nagoya a select force conveniently placed to stop the troops that Yoshitatsu had sent to kidnap Nouhime while the main army was away.
The battle that followed was a much harder one: Yoshitatsu and the rebellious Oda branch easily outnumbered and outgunned the forces of Owari. While his generals and even his brother were clamoring for retreat, Nobunaga pressed on, his confidence inspiring tender-hearted Nobuyuki to heroics of his own. Just as all seemed lost, however, Nobunaga's original plan finally came to fruition: Tokichiro appeared on the battlefield with no other than Saitou Dousan, who was appalled at his son's behavior and forced him to retreat in disgrace. Nobutomo and Nobuyasu too then had to admit final defeat, and that was the end of in-fighting within the Oda Clan and Owari Province.
That peace did not last long, but its breaking actually turned out to be in Nobunaga's favor. After Saitou Dousan's death, Yoshitatsu - at last lord of Mino and drunk with his new power - dismissed his earlier defeats and made no effort to prepare for the battle that all others in Mino and Owari knew were coming. When at last Nobunaga engaged Yoshitatsu's strategist, Takenaka Hanbei, in battle, he was able to crush the Mino forces despite Hanbei's genius. Once again, the former informant Tokichiro, now general Hashiba Hideyoshi, had prevailed, this time building a one-day-castle of his own for his lord's gunners. Nobunaga killed Yoshitatsu, ended the Saitou Clan and seized Mino for himself.
With these two great threats removed, and the Imagawa placid under their overconfident leader Yoshimoto, Nobunaga now had the time to turn his sights a little further - namely to Edo, the capital, his final goal, where very strange things were rumored to be happening. While in provincial Owari there was not much news to be had, this was when Kasane stepped in once again. She gave her lord the youkai scroll - and a firm talking-to, pleading with him to stay in Owari and use the scroll to keep an eye on things in the Hojo region. Being himself, Nobunaga took the scroll, then took a handful of retainers and rode off to the Hojo region anyway, which she should have anticipated, honestly.
Nobunaga has entered the vicinity of Edo without fanfare, going by an assumed name - Kusanagi Kotetsu, after one of Kasane's brothers - and avoiding any sorts of lordly displays. For now, he only wants to watch and learn. Conquest will come later.
