Sankoku

"What's a little white lie between friends?"
Sankoku is a Reaper from Week 17 of The Reaper's Game. He is a bit of a brat who's happy to taunt and heckle Players before a Week is even due. His surname is "Sakana" while his given name is Sankoku.
==Appearance==
Sankoku sports short blonde hair with the bangs swept to his right and brown eyes. He likes wearing loose Asian-styled clothing in white and red accents with a sash tied around his waist or dangling behind him. Sometimes he dons a wide-brimmed hat when traversing crowds. He wears his Noise summoning and regular Pins as bangles around his wrist, sometimes throwing the accessories to reach far-ranged targets.
He has a very thin build in addition to his short stature, making him easily overlooked when he's not being loud or violent. This often works to his favor as he likes being hidden in plain sight in the RG, and casually traversing cities unmolested in the UG.
His Noise Form is a Koi fish roughly the length of an adult human, Cyberpunk Rubrofuscus.
==Personality==
Sankoku is a scatter-brained, sadistic, and excitable Reaper. Though he thrives in overwhelmingly-positive groups of people, Sankoku is just a wolf in sheep's clothing. His easy answers should be taken with a grain of salt, as he often motivates Players for his own entertainment or eggs them on into trouble. He is only trustworthy if he follows the same end-goal, or one manages to bargain a truce from this unpredictable boy.
He's improved at being sincere and kinder to people since the end of Week 17, where other Players actually showed concern for the Reaper throughout the Week, which culminated in a winning Player, Haruka, bargaining for his life by offering to Replay the Game.
Sankoku will mooch snacks off anyone be they friend, foe, or stranger.
==History==
===Pre-Game===
Sankoku was a university sophomore who volunteered on a local fire brigade. His training was cut short when he failed to adequately suit up for an emergency blaze, diving into a house when he heard the cries of children trapped inside, ultimately sacrificing himself for that family.
He turned Reaper in a different District with far more ruthless Games where even Reapers sometimes turned on each other. Sankoku lost his partner and chose Reaperdom over being Erased, adapting quickly to the lifestyle and hunting down Players. He transferred out upon hearing rumors of forbidden Noise manufacturing, heading to Shibuya with the intention of spectating to see if this city would fall to ruin.
===Week 17===
Sankoku made his introduction with Hatsu, a short and falsely-cheery Player, and an unnamed Player by dragging them into the Noise Plane and setting a pair of frogs on them. They learned to made use of their equipped pins, impressing Sankoku with their quick thinking, though leaving him put-off by thwarting his first would-be Erasure. However the Game Master, Masami Uehara, made an example of him on Day 0 and punished him for attacking Players outside of the Week, to which he harbored an intense grudge.
Sankok later attacked Fumiko towards the end of Day 0, but again his Erasure attempt was thwarted by Haruka stepping in so Fumiko wasn't left alone.
Days 1-2 were largely the same, Sankoku either sleeping in through the Mission or preferring to observe the Players' struggle rather than engage. He briefly pranked Takumi, a Player who was not aware of Reapers or what constituted a legal Pact, into making an informal partnership with him before Kasuga showed up and partnered properly with Takumi.
Day 3 lit a fire under both the Reapers and Players of the Week, as the working Reapers decided to confront the Players of the true nature of their existence and Erasure requirement. A few Players present, namely Fumiko and Ikuko, tried calling out the Reapers for being terrible people for willingly choosing this life. Sankoku did not take kindly to this at all and offered that if they preferred to choose death over living this way if they ever lost their Partners, he'd happily deliver the sentence. However, Day 3 was still too early for any Reaper to directly challenge Players, so he contented himself with observing them all at an uncomfortably close distance.
By Day 5, with all the Players making it through being separated from their Partners and passing all the Division's Missions with flying colors, he started to wonder if his former District's bloody Games were the norm. He found himself appreciative at how the Players and Reapers supported each other, even being on different teams, though he was hesitant on believing any encouragement himself. As the Players discussed their plans for returning to the Realground and overcoming their own personal obstacles, he found himself unwilling to take away their chance at a second life, compounded when he dove in front of a Wolf attack intended for Haruka. When the Player literally saved his life with a strategic Heal Lock, that cemented his pacifist decision for the rest of the Week.
On Day 6, Haruka got wind of the Reapers' raison d'être, approaching Sankoku at Towa Records. The Player demanded when Sankoku was planning on telling Haruka that he intended on letting himself be Erased in order for Haru to continue his dream of finishing medical school (as the Player had somewhat fallen for the Reaper the day before). Sankoku simply encouraged Haruka to live, as his profession would save lives, rather than let himself live by taking more, before attempting to comfort the Player with a hug, which Haru turned into a rather heated kiss. Sankoku decided to take Haru on a swim-led tour of Shibuya's UG to share one last moment together.
Day 7, MAN OH MAN
The Reapers were gonna be Erased and haru was like 'can i play again so he lives' and sank was like 'bruh no' and gaius->AJ->TMH Logistics officer was like 'lol paperwork fucky gaius sucky, u all live because yall were classed as supps scrubs lol rekt' and that was that.
=== Post Week ===
Sankoku accompanied an alive Haruka to his home in Akasaka, meeting his sister. He currently resides there while wondering if it's possible to live as a Reaper without necessarily Erasing, cooking for Haru and being just as much of a nuisance in his home as he was in the Game. 
==Relationships==
===Hatsu===
Hatsu and another unnamed Player were the first Players he'd met in Shibuya, Week 17. Enamored with her pre-fee cheery and playful personality, he challenged her and the Player to an un-moderated fight far before the Game itself. Hatsu's concern after he was penalized by the Game Master both touched and puzzled him, since he did not consider them close enough to warrant the attention.
===Asagao===
The purple-haired player was another target of his teasing before the Week 17, and he took pleasure in poking and prodding at them until they steeled their own resolve about winning the game. He's quite interested in how they'll 'turn out' after the Week.
===Haruka===
Sankoku was impressed that Haruka was able to see the Reaper's side of the Game so quickly on the Tutorial Day of Week 17. He seemed like a soft person under the exterior during the Truth or Dare game, but quickly annoyed Sankoku by jumping to Fumiko's aid when the Reaper launched a surprise attack on her. Sankoku felt bad enough for the guy afterwards to throw some money at him to patch up his jacket afterwards. Over the course of Week 17, they ended up falling for each other to the point that they both insisted that the other should live despite their very conflicting life goals. After the Week, Sankoku basically followed Haru to his RG home to continue their relationship, to the ex-Player's amusement.
===Fumiko===
A foolish Player who trusted him too quickly, Fumiko struck up a conversation with Sankoku about Reaperdom on the eve of the First Day. His attempt to take advantage of the dark and solo match was thwarted when Haruka stepped in. She appeared to be rather observant of her surroundings before her Fee was taken, and he's interested to see how her intellect will carry her through the Week.
=== Ikuko ===
A fiery Player from Week 17, Ikuko got along amicably with Sankoku before Day 3's argument. However after compromising over the fact that life sucked in general, Sankoku offered to show her his future koi pond, once he could establish a career as a fish breeder.
=== Hibiki ===
Though their meeting was brief, he respects her concern for him after his encounter with the Game Master. 
=== Tatsuya ===
A friendly Reaper who cheers on and encourages Players, Tatsuya came off to Sankoku as a pushover at first. He acknowledges Tatsuya as an equal as a fellow Reaper, though he knows that his tendency to attack and threaten Players did not sit well with the Officer. 
=== Kazuki ===
Another friendly Reaper who co-ran the Cafe along with Sol. Sankoku is impressed at how much cake the Reaper ended up stomaching in Day 0's Truth or Dare.
=== Sol ===
Another good guy! Friendly, co-owned the Cafe alongside Kazuki as far as Sankoku knows. He showed a great devotion to his family during the Reaper Existential Crisis. Also bought Dragon Lady.
=== Uehara (Week 17's GM) ===
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=== AJ ===
Why is he so soft for this man? Sankoku's original bid for power and safety involved caring out a niche in the figurative pocket of the current Conductor of Shibuya, meaning he look every lucrative opportunity to get close to AJ. At first it started out as frequent visits (and taunts) to the hardworking man with Sankoku blatantly snacking in his office and disturbing his paperwork. Eventually Sankoku caught on to AJ's proclivity to overworking himself and forcefully dragged the stressed Conductor to lunch outings and dinner drinks, even bringing the man lunch bentos later in the Game when AJ was resolutely glued to the desk.
Eventually Sankoku used the man as a soundboard to plan his eventual proposal to Haru after the Week, not catching on that the white-haired man had fallen for the brat. Somehow Sankoku didn't notice until after AJ willingly donned a decked-out wedding dress at his behest and came out about his true feelings when Haruka accidentally walked on them both practicing the vows.
===Yuri Ichiro===
A young kid he had the pleasure of tormenting previous to Week 19 in the beach vacation. He often stole Yuri's sand castle-building bucket in order to coerce the kid into participating in a volleyball match along with Marilyn and Mirai. Eventually Mirai and Yuri ended up defeating him and Marilyn, and he was forced to return the bucket. Sankoku harbors no ill-will towards Yuri, and is more surprised AJ, who was supervising the trip, did nothing to penalize the rest of his stay at the ocean.
==Trivia==
*Sankoku loves mooching snacks off other people, be they friends or strangers. 
*His 'Reaper power' and favorite method of travel is 'swimming' under the streets, much like Sharks or other aquatic Noise. He can see just fine in that state, as the concrete above looks like the surface of a swimming pool.
*He stole Umeko's x9999 burgers.
*His torso is covered in burn scars from his death, and he keeps them covered to the point of wearing a towel over his whole body when bathing together with Haru, as it is a painful memory lane to revisit. 
*Sankoku's Noise Form leaks out a bit when he's feeling very unwell or vulnerable, manifesting as a small school of silvery fish that swim out from his pockets and sleeves and nibbling at himself or the object of his attention. They are largely harmless and disappear back into Sankoku's clothes at the slightest provocation. 
==Gallery==
Sankoku Lolly.png|Sankoku (Drawn by KingLolly@DA)
Sankoku 404358.png|Sankoku in Picrew #404358
Sankoku 13338.png|Sankoku in Picrew #13338
Sankoku 22347.png|Sankoku in Picrew #22347
Sankoku Suit.png|Sankoku in a suit, art by Doge
Sankoku fate au.png|Sankoku but gilgamesh
Sankoku W17.png|Sankoku's appearance in Week 17, art by Pixiv User 綿峰 (2290491)
Sank_W19.png|Sankoku for W19's Beach Event, art by Doge
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