Birth Name: Yamashita Yoshihiro

Nova Name: Laughing Madman
Series:

Eruption:

Nature: Follower

Allegiance: Seven Samurai

Strength: 5, Brawl 5, Might 5

Dexterity: 3, Athletics 2, Legerdemain 1, Melee 4, Stealth 1

Stamina: 5, Endurance 3, Resistance 3

Perception: 3, Awareness 1

Intelligence: 2, Linguistics 1 (Japanese, English), Survival 2

Wits: 3, Biz 1

Appearance: 2, Intimidation 4

Manipulation: 2, Streetwise 1

Charisma: 3, Perform 2

Backgrounds: Eufiber 1, Influence 1, Resources 2, Node 2, Mentor 1

Merits/Flaws: Huge Size

Willpower: 5

Taint:

Aberrations:

Quantum: 1

Quantum Pool: 22

Mega-Attributes: Strength 2 (Shockwave), Stamina 1 (Durability)

Quantum Powers: Armor 5, Hypermove (run) 1, Intuition 1

8’10” of Ainu destruction, Yama is every bit as unstoppable as he looks.

On the show, representing the element of Earth, ‘the Laughing Madman’

is a boisterous lucky fool who cracks jokes at every chance, but away

from his screen personal Yama is quiet and insecure. He is secretly

ashamed of his freakish size that relegates him to the status of performer

in the Japanese mindset, and would trade the fame and celebrity status

to be a normal man, perhaps a gardener... Now that the show has been

shelved and only exists in reruns and cartoon voice-overs, Yama feels

that there is nothing left but to leave his quiet homeland in Hokkaido

and parade his freakish talents before smelly grunting foreigners.

Recruited as a youth for shows like this, Yama has never had much of

a formal education, and feels that he has been intellectually starved.

In New Zealand, he is checking into some sort of training, but has

so far been too embarassed to mention that he wishes to see if he can

get some sort of remedial high schooling. He is trapped in a world he

fears, a world that is not made for people like him, and it is a fortunate

thing indeed for all around him that he has never really been angry at

another person in his short life, blaming himself for everything that

he doesn’t like.

Yama has always been somewhat admiring of Mark, filling him in as

the father he no longer remembers, completely awestruck and rendered

speechless by Shima’s unearthly grace and beauty, intimidated by the

determined and outspoken nature of Torii and distrusting of Zhan and

his brooding silences. He thought Yin and Yang, the supposed twins,

whom he only saw once out of their masks, clouds of darkness or

blinding glares, were strange, almost incestuous. He doesn’t know or

care what happened to them, since they very clearly didn’t want to be

friends and never showed up for cast parties or anything. Even Zhan

showed up at least, even if he never smiled…