Zen

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[center][size=1][color=darkred]I got alotta kicks outta this one. [YOUTUBE="The Bag Boy"]XfC69UMQLeQ[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE="Gigaton Punch"]OBHxXufqOEY[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE="Do The Bankai"]TgE9qLnycPk[/YOUTUBE] Atleast skip to the last ten seconds for the best part on "Bankai". [YOUTUBE="Knights of Cydonia"]bZTrVlwDW0k[/YOUTUBE] If you're a Muse fan and havn't seen this, you'll get a definite kick. The most rad music video ever.[/color][/size][/center]

[color=darkred][size=1] I plan on being cremated and not having a tombstone. If I do get one, though.... "He was too Punk Rock for life." "I'm standing right behind you." "Life's a *****, but damn she was good in bed." "h4x" "Life is like a box of chocolates. Most of it tastes terrible, but every once in a while you get something good. Then you choke to death."[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] The Hit 2 is currently under way and your characters will be used in the near future, despite the very, very long break in between the two works. Anyone still interested in contributing themselves to the mythology of The Hit are welcome to continue and I will try my best to work you into the plot or future storylines. - Zen[/color][/size]

[color=red][b][size=1]The following fic is rated MATURE for violence, language, sexuality, drugs, and alcohol. The characters are all works of fiction based on the personalities of several Otakuboards members, though they are in no way personal judgements or a means of insult for said members. We're all friends here. Please enjoy the read, and comment me with any form of feedback you wish. Thank you and enjoy.[/color][/b][/size] [color=darkred][u] [center][b][URL="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=56225"]The Hit[/URL] [URL="http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=57460"]The Hit: Contracts[/URL][/b][/center][/color][/u] [size=1] [b]“You need a new name… The Boss, it’s simply unbefitting a man such as you.” “I’ll have a Sprite, thank you…”[/b] I looked away from the stewardess and back to Erica who sat on the row seat. [b]“Why’s that? I like it... its got panache. Besides, I didn’t even choose it. It kinda just, happened, somehow.” “It makes you sound like a real asshole, if you ask me.” “I didn’t ask you, did I Raiha.” My eyes didn’t leave Erica. “Watch who you speak to in that tone…” “Well what would you suggest?” [/b]I followed the stewardess’ behind with my eyes as she moved in her tight uniform to the back storage area. [b]“Well, your style seems so… simple. You’re a very minimalist man from what I’ve observed.” “From what you observed? Last I checked, all you did was drop a bomb in my hospital room and jet.” “We’ve been watching your movements a lot closer than you realize, mister…. ‘ahem’, Boss.” “Yeah, I see where you are coming from with the name thing now…” “…Well as I was saying. You are very simple in your approach, yet effective. In eastern culture, things of simple beauty are often referred to as Zen. I believe that name may be more… suitable. If you asked me, that is.” “Hah, simple beauty my Chinese ass. There isn’t anything beautiful about his style. He’s just lucky. I don’t see why James doesn’t just let us handle the target.” “From what I gather, James just wants the job done right.”[/b] The stewardess made her way back down the isle in her tight powder-blue uniform, carrying a can of Sprite for me. She reached across Erica and handed it to me as Raiha whispered something along the lines of killing me in my sleep. [b]“Regardless, the name change was just a suggestion. Just an idle comment.” “No, I like it. Zen… I think I’ll stick to it.”[/b] A groan of frustration rose from my left, out of Raiha’s body. A chime went off over the plane’s intercom, and a relaxed man’s voice spoke elegantly in Japanese. Then he began in English, [b]“Good Evening, Passengers. I’d like to say to you all, Welcome to Japan. We shall be landing shortly, please fasten your seat belts and enjoy your stay in the land of the Rising Sun.” “Cool… So where did you guys stow my sword at again?”[/b] [color=darkred] [center]***********************************[size=3] [FONT="Impact"]The Hit 2[/FONT][/size] [img]http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/5513/hitmantextxp7.jpg[/img] [b]Chapter 18:[/b] In With The New[/center] We must’ve been some strange site, walking through the Japanese airport terminal as a pair. Two business like, and beautiful, asian women tailing a single red-haired Greek fellow dressed in an old track suit. The people around us must’ve thought I was a rapper or something and they were my agents. Funny thing is that one had tried to kill me not two weeks ago, and the other wanted to chop off my dick and feed it to a pack of dogs. Erica quickened her pace, signaling me and Raiha to follow. [b] “Baggage claim is this way, or luggage should be rolling in soon. We must be quick…”[/b] [b] “What’s the rush?”[/b] [b] “The rush is that we’re smuggling a small personal armory into the country.”[/b] Raiha’s sarcasm went unnoticed when I realized what she’d said. [b] “W-what?!”[/b] [b] “Quiet your ass down!”[/b] Raiha screamed in a hushed voice. My voice lowered to a whisper, [b] “What kind of morons smuggle guns on a commercial airline?”[/b] Raiha turned directly to my face and growled,[b] “The kind of morons who can’t afford to search the criminal underworld for firearms because our target OWNS the underworld!”[/b] [b] “Ah…[/b] [center]************************************[/center] Tokyo was bustling with human bodies. I’d been to Japan before, but that was many years ago when I was just a kid. A lot of memories were tied to the mountain side village that I was trained in. But I had very little experience in the city, and it had only grown in my time away. I lugged two extremely heavy, metal filled suitcases on my back as the young ladies ahead of me guided us to our hotel. Carrying bags full of weapons through a city this crowded was more than a little nerve-racking. I could only hope the hotel was nice. Erica handled the talking at the front desk, and soon we were off up the elevator towards our lodging. [b] “I got us an entire room to ourselves. You should feel lucky.”[/b] [b] “Is that supposed to be something special?”[/b] [b] “In Tokyo? Well, to explain it in terms you’ll understand, I just spent four hundred dollars on one hotel room for one night. Tomorrow we’ll have to stay somewhere else.”[/b] [b] “This better be a nice ass room.”[/b] [b] “Just shut up and be happy with what you get.”[/b] Raiha’s shortness with me was becoming hard to put up with. The elevator stopped and we stepped out. The hallway was extremely thin, and claustrophobia suddenly became an understandable ailment to me. We stopped at the end of the hallway and Erica opened the door to a room that might have been the size of a walk-in closet. On each side of the room were two holes in the walls the size of a man and a window facing the door. [b] “Welcome home, Zen. Atleast for the night.”[/b] [b] “You gotta be shitting me.”[/b] [b] “I wish we were. Lay the bags down in the spare bed.”[/b] Raiha stepped up and sat down on the bottom hole in the wall, bending over on her knees. [b] “Bed? You mean those are beds?”[/b] [b] “What’d I tell you about complaining…”[/b] [center]***************************[/center] Raiha and Erica said that they had to go check in with a contact within the city, and make a call to James. I decided to stay back and sleep off my jet-lag. As I lay there I remembered the weeks prior to when I’d arrived in Japan. After handling my deal with James, I left the now destroyed Vigor. Gavin, The Riot, and every other life form had completely disappeared from the premises. Less for me to deal with luckily. After I let Sakura and DW know about what the deal was, I told them to not get involved. I didn’t want to put them in danger ever again, or at least, not in the kind of danger a job such as this would put them in. Sakura tried to put up a fight, but I wouldn’t let her. I told her to work on her own career for a bit, earn some money, let me do my job. DW on the other hand had no qualms at all. With a warning and a good luck, he said good bye to me. James kept in close contact with me for the week leading up to my flight. He offered me all the ammunition and weaponry I could want, but I refused, telling him my odachi was all I needed. That was when he decided to send Erica and Raiha along with me, though I’m pretty certain he had planned to have them watch me anyways. They’re the ones who told me who my target was supposed to be. Head of the Black Hand Yakuza, a mysterious man without a name or face to identify. He was apparently a highly guarded and secretive individual whose criminal activities often rivaled those of James himself. James entailed me with the information that he was guarded by some of the most dangerous body guards in the underworld, and had a vast amount of human resources at his disposal. James also let me know the little legend behind the Black Hand’s leader. Apparently the Black Hand was formerly run by five members, all of whom had equal power. It was the current leader who walked into one of their meetings one day, an apparent outsider, and single handedly murdered every one of the heads himself. Some say with his bare hands. Others say with some dark magic behind him. Personally I don’t believe that mumbo jumbo, but what is clear is that he won his power by force, and the guy is dangerous. I told James that’d I’d take care of myself. Sleep was growing close when I heard a knock at the door. I’d hoped it was room service. Opening the door myself, I stepped out and looked to my right down the empty, narrow hallway, and then to my left. No one. Turning around, my eyes fell on a loomingly tall figure dressed in all black. A large cross laying on the window seal. [b] “Interesting…. Most interesting.”[/b][/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] I'm glad to atleast know I survived part one. Huzzah![/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] I think it'd be a good idea, for the sake of new people and oldies alike, to change my name to my current one "Zen" in Otakupedia, being that there is no longer a member named The Boss. A little update wouldn't be bad either.[/color][/size]

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[b]X-Box 360 Gamertag[/b]: Ares Tyr [url=http://profile.mygamercard.net/Ares+Tyr][img]http://card.mygamercard.net/Ares+Tyr.png[/img][/url] I play Call of Duty 4 mostly, but I also own Halo 3, Rock Band, Gears of War, and a few others. But mostly I play the first four, particularly CoD4. Hit me up on that. I'd be happy to lay some rape down on ya. If I could figure out my Wii stuff, I'd be on that also, but I can't figure it out.

[img]http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_captkirk.jpg[/img] [color=darkred][size=1] I just beat you Pumpkin.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] Right now I'm watching [b]Outlaw Star[/b] on DVD, and I'm realizing that it has far more sex and blood than I remember from the original broadcast, which is awesome. Also more strippers and nakedness. I'm still reading [b]Naruto[/b], and I don't plan on stopping either. Also still watching [b]Bleach[/b], though I'm skipping the filler seasons and episodes. I'm trying to pick up a new series but I'm short on ideas.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] Even though its not looked to in a particularly good light, I'm proud to say I was part of that. What a time. What a thread.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] I got a nifty little signature list for particular songs, but for the artists... Rage Against the Machine Hello Tomorrow Weezer Wu-Tang Clan MC Lars Hieroglyphics All That Remains Del The Funky Homosapien Jay-Z Justice Daft Punk David Banner [/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] I've been playing [b]Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[/b] almost exclusively for the past two months due to my recent induction into a clan/team. Its definetly my favorite FPS ever, and one of the funnest games I've played in a while. I've also tried to pick up [b]Mass Effect[/b] but I don't have enough time to invest in playing it, though I do love it so far. I picked up [b]Super Smash Bros. Brawl[/b] on release date and love it. Metaknight and Ike are my favorite new characters, and the new stages are a blast. That's the up and up on me for the moment.[/color][/size]

Whatever color scheme, picture, or words you want (though my name in it would be cool). Have fun with it. Thanks.

[color=darkred][size=1] So I just picked up the complete DVD set for one of my old favorites, [b]Outlaw Star[/b] and I plan on finishing it right away. It has been a super long time since I've seen the series and I'm very excited to have it in my possession now. So, just wondering if I could start a conversation about it. It's one of my favorites of all time, and I have alot of memories tied to it. [/color][/size]

From the sky falls Zen. Better known as his past aliases "The Boss, Mugen, ReFlux" or "Double_B_Daigo". Having a laptop makes things alot easier to do on the internet. I'm back party peoples. Don't let the name change fool you, I switched it right before I took another hiatus. I hope I didn't miss anything awesome like I always do.

[color=darkred][size=1] I changed my name recently from "The Boss" (reference to a Metal Gear Solid character) to [b]Zen[/b]. Mk Zen is my MC, DJ, Graffiti, and B-Boy name. Its what I'm known as on Gaia and on MySpace as well. So I decided to transfer the name to OBs as well. Zen is also a reference to my religion, being a (rather bad) Zen Buddhist and also being that Zen has connotations as to mean 'Perfection' I think it adds to the whole Hip Hop thing. So yeah. Zen. Call me that now.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] While I don't much care what anyone does aslong as it doesn't bring harm on others, I do see where [b]Chabichou[/b] is coming from due to my position as a romantic. Prostitution really does take all the sentimentality and romance out of sex. If it were legalized in America, alot of people, men especially, really wouldn't have reason to search for a relationship at all unless they were religious or like myself, a romantic. I wouldn't hire a prostitue on the grounds, not of STDs, but just gross out that she's had so 'many'. The same reason I would never date a porn-star. As well, I like to 'make love' rather than 'bone' or 'have sex', which is pretty much all you do with a prostitute. Emotion makes things sweeter, if you ask me. So really, I don't like prostitution, and I wouldn't par-take in it. But I suppose it if were legalized, it would eliminate some opposition in the dating scene. So pretty much, I'm un-opinionated, though personally not into it.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] Whee! I'm a beast, that's cool. I hope I get to kick booty.[/color][/size]

[quote name='Dagger']If I had to guess, I would say no. CN doesn't often seem to pick up short series, and ADV has probably reserved it for their own network (I think it might be available On Demand). It's unfortunate. This is the type of show that would be perfect for them to stream online... it was never fansubbed beyond the first two episodes, and it could afford to be much better known. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [color=darkred][size=1] [adult swim] aired the six-episode masterpiece FL/CL and has it in rotation occasionally, and also regularly airs movies and what not. I don't think it's completely out of the question, but in any case, you're probably right about the ADV channel. It's a shame. Ah well. Of clip: very elaborate up-skirt shots. They're getting creative with their fan-service. Liking the action though. Pretty baller I must say.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] Maybe I was wrong about the Sharingan-malarky that I expected in the Sasuke-Itachi fight. Regardless, I have a question... do the characters in Naruto really have such vulgar speech with all the f-bombs and shizzles dropped thus far, or is that just the online-translators spicing things up themselves?[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] I got... [b]Rock Band: The Special Edition Bundle[/b] which is, without question, one of my new favorite games. Though I'm very good at guitar on it and instantly picked up Expert (with five/four stars on most songs) I can't get passed damned "Green Grass and High Tides". I was very good at Drums on the demos, but with the addition of the bass pedal, I can barely keep a four star on medium, which is embarrassing. I'm also picking up vocals pretty decently, working on medium with 90% and even a few on Hard (I perfected "Sabotage", being that I actually know the entire song). So I enjoy it alot. The song list is far more.... amped, than Guitar Hero. Though I love GHIII, I actually know a large majority of the Rock Band songs right off the bat, so its fun. I love it. I also got [b]Magix Music Maker 12 Deluxe[/b]. Havn't had a chance to much get into it yet, but I'll definetly make use of it. I got a large amount of clothing. Mostly vintage t-shirts. I got a new hard drive for my X-Box 360 and a 13-month Gold Membership on X-Box Live, along with an Ethernet cord, effectively, this has ended a large portion of my coming social life. And from my ex-girlfriend, I have gotten a mixed-labradore retriever from the pound named "Houdini" (variations include Houdi, Houdi Hoo, Houda-man). All in all, it was a good haul, and I had a pretty good Christmas. I still would like a microphone for recording, but I still have my upcoming birthday next month.[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] With Cartoon Network's record of picking up both Kikaider and Android 009, do you think there is any chance of them picking this one up to, being that they are soon to have an open programming block on Saturdays for Adult Swim with the loss of Futurama? As much as I loved Kikaider and Adroid, I don't have the bones to spend on a series I've never seen...[/color][/size]

[color=darkred][size=1] Just to make sure, you guys are using computer drawing tools (like pen-pad) for these right? Because if you guys are this good using a mouse (or a brick) then I need to re-evaluate my entire life. Where would I procure one of those tools? How much?[/color][/size]