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  • We've been radio silent for a long time now. We posted an announcement in our Discord server back in April of 2025, but never updated the forums. So what's up with Gateway Roleplay?

    After 5 long years, we've decided to place the development of Ties That Bind on an indefinite hold.

    This doesn't mean it's cancelled. We fully intend to run Ties That Bind: What Lies Beneath and Ties That Bind: City of Angels eventually. But to do so, we need to take a step back. In the meantime, we'll be working on smaller, invite-only projects.

    Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us this long! MindGate and I (Pika) have been working on this server for over a decade now. It truly is a passion project for us.

Jinichi Tateru | Gerr74

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Gerr74

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Character Name
Jinichi Tateru

I Agree
Yes

Has this character appeared in a previous lore?
No

Age
42

Blood Type
O+

Personality
At a glance, Jinichi is a stoic man who keeps primarily to the sidelines in social conversations. It is not that he has trouble speaking up, it's more he just intently listens and replies when he needs to. If he does speak up, he tends to remain polite with his speech, unless he needs to be… Less than polite.

He is a large, burly man with quite the glare, however as subtly he shows it, he is kindhearted and quite the selfless gentleman. He wants the world to be in a better place, or at least to put it on the right tracks before his life is over, and does a lot to achieve that way. He tries his best to be trusting, but he isn’t naive, he has the experience to back up a good sense of judgement of a person.

Character Motivations
Jinichi wants to build a self-sufficient community without fear of the horrors outside the world, and to quell the zombie threat. He will do a lot for others in order to help them achieve this end goal, before his life comes to a close and he passes away.

Physical Appearance
Jinichi is a tall 6’5” large muscular frame, a hunk or a man. He is Japanese-American with a piercing set of icy blue eyes, and somewhat messy greying black hair. He currently has a full beard on his face, in growth around since the apocalypse started. He has several fading scars or multiple severities upon his torso from old world injuries he sustained from his work and other instances.

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Mechanical Occupation
Electrician

In-Character Occupation
Construction Foreman

Biography
Jinichi spent a big chunk of his early childhood in a poverty stricken family. A father constantly in debt with illegal groups, and a sickly mother and little sister, Jinichi used less than honorable methods and became quite the punk to get food on the table. One fateful day his father disappeared on them, assumed to have fled after he could no longer pay the debts he owed. This left Jinichi all by himself to take care of his family, and to his demise, he failed. His mother and sister would pass away from their sickly nature, leaving Jinichi by himself to fend for a good while.

Beginning into his teenage years, he messed with the wrong old fart, meeting his soon to be adopted father, who taught him a lesson, worked him back up, and trained him as part of his construction outfit, teaching him good values and hard work. He grew up from his punkish young self to a more respectable young man, and even after suffering a harsh injury that also took out his adopted father, he continued to work as the head of his father’s outfit as it’s owner and foreman.

At 28, the apocalypse started, driving Jinichi to act as fast as he could, using the surviving construction workers within his outfit, they did their best to reinforce their community to survive the wave, and while it worked for a good few years, they eventually fell to the undead. Jinichi lost most of his men, the rest scattered across the countryside.

After the loss of the work he did so far, and little to his name left, he continued his wandering, settling for going to communities and offering his expert construction skills to fortify and enhance communities with technologies at the time long since gone, from solar power, reinforced walls, war gates, green houses, etc. He spent a good amount of his early adulthood assisting the communities along the mainland USA.
He finally decided to settle down, as his age was beginning to catch up with him, and people his age still alive were quite the feat. He heard of a community in Monroe County, and decided his final project would be here, and had arrived soon after.

Would you like your character to start with any items?
Less so items, more so knows recipes or recipe books regarding carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and maybe mechanical/smithing recipes.

Would you like your character to start with any skills?
Sprinting: 2
Light Footed: 0
Nimble: 1
Sneaking: 0

Blade Accuracy: 2
Blade Guard: 1
Blade Maintenance: 4

Blunt Accuracy: 7
Blunt Guard: 7
Blunt Maintenance: 8

Carpentry: 9
Cooking: 3
Farming: 1
First Aid: 1
Electrical: 9
Metalworking: 9
Mechanics: 5

Aiming: 0
Reloading: 0

Fishing: 0
Trapping: 0
Foraging: 1

Is your character a member of a group?
No
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Heya, Gerr74! I've reviewed your application and it's accepted!

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Username: Jinichi Tateru
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