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<big>〈 PLAYER INFO 〉</big>
NAME: miro
AGE: 21
JOURNAL: <user name=neverbepractical>
IM / EMAIL: mirobutt@gmail.com
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RETURNING: nope, i was here a while ago but otherwise i'm new :D

<big>〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉</big>
CHARACTER NAME: Nobuchika Ginoza
CHARACTER AGE: 28
SERIES: Psycho-Pass
CHRONOLOGY: End of Episode 13
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: if he can be housed with kogami and akane that would be <strike>horrible</strike> wonderful, but if not, preferably somewhere in maurtia falls, please!

BACKGROUND: 
<a href=http://psychopass.wikia.com/wiki/Nobuchika_Ginoza>Gino's Wiki Page</a>

Psycho-Pass takes place in the year 2112 when the world has turned into a dystopia, leaving authoritarian Japan as it's only well-functioning country. Japan is controlled by a hive-mind called the Sibyl System, a piece of technology that has 'saved' and secured a prosperous future for those living in Japan by enforcing certain standards such as aptitude tests for future jobs, judging a persons worth based on their mental status, and implementing constant surveillance.

"Planning out your whole life, fulfilling your desires, no matter what choices the citizens are making they can simply ask for Sibyl's judgement rather than agonize over it alone. With the Sibyl System, we are putting in place a society of absolute personal fulfilment and communal safety that is unprecedented in human history." - Joushuu Kasai, Chief of the MWPSB, Episode 13.

The Sibyl System allows drones and public sensors to scan and evaluate the citizens in it's range to produce their 'Psycho-Pass', a report from which the system can judge the person according to their Hue - a coloured representation of their mood and mental state - and their Crime Coefficient - a numerical value of their likelihood of being a public nuisance. Should anyone ping over a certain amount, they are immediately flagged as a latent criminal - someone with the capacity to cause disruption to society - and are pursued and put into therapy, or simply disposed of depending on the level of danger they present. This allows Japan to become and remain the self-sustained figure head of the world, with a carefully crafted and cultivated society that eventually becomes docile.

However, if in therapy a latent criminal shows a certain aptitude they can become an Enforcer and work for the very system that put them away in the first place. Enforcers work under Inspectors in the MWPSB (Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau) as their 'hunting dogs', as it takes a criminal to catch a criminal. To help things along and to ensure that the Sibyl System always has the last word, the Enforcers and their Inspectors carry around specialised guns called Dominators, which scan the target's Crime Coefficient and Hue and measure it in order to pass judgement. The gun will not fire until the person weilding it has been authorised, and until the target has been scanned and deemed a hazard. Only then will the gun shoot to either paralyse the target or obliterate them.

Ginoza is an Inspector who leads Division 1 in the Criminal Investigation Department of the MWPSB. There, he meets Akane Tsunemori, a rookie who's had her future profession chosen for her by the Sibyl System's test and has landed herself in the middle of one of the more difficult jobs available, and so begins the plot of Psycho-Pass.

Gino was born before the Sibyl System came to Japan, but it's arrival brought more than a new way of life for him. When he was nine years old, his father was committed to a rehabilitation centre due to his darkening Hue and rising Crime Coefficient. As an old-school detective, it was necessary that his father was able to think like a criminal and he opposed the system entirely as it called for detectives to rely on the judgement of a machine rather than using their brains, but Sibyl didn't see to reason and his father only grew angrier and angrier until he was finally flagged and admitted to rehab, eventually going on to become an Enforcer for the MWPSB. In the early days of the system there was a great deal of judgement applied not only to latent criminals, but to their families too. Ginoza and his mother suffered through reduced income and were shunned by society for being closely related to someone with an unstable hue (as people actually believe it could be hereditary). The bullying and shame got so bad, in fact, that Gino took on his mothers surname (Ginoza) instead of his fathers, in the hopes to escape some of that stigma.

Gino's opinion of his father soured from there, leading him to focus heavily on studying law and criminal justice in school to escape the reality of having a criminal as a parent and so to understand the New Order and fully integrate himself within it to avoid the same fate. Gino faced a great deal of bullying in high school because of his father, and it's there he met Shinya Kogami for the first time, when he saved Gino from a particularly bad bullying episode. Despite being polar opposites personality-wise, the two quickly became best friends as they were both excellent students, and when Gino told Kogami his future plans of joining the MWPSB and becoming an Inspector, Kogami decided to do the same.

Gino joins the MWPSB ultimately to fulfil his role in the job as it is something he's very interested in and very good at, but also in the subconscious hope that he might reconnect with his father, who he still treasures despite everything.

He and Kogami work together in Division 1 as Inspectors until Kogami's Psycho-Pass starts to deteriorate when he obsesses over an unsolvable case involving the brutal murder of one of their Enforcers, Sasayama. Ultimately Gino cannot prevent Kogami's decline and Kogami is demoted to become an Enforcer working under Gino, which only fuels his prejudice against the hounds of the MWPSB even more.

The beginning of canon starts with Akane's introduction to her new job as an Inspector for Division 1, working alongside Ginoza. Right from the off he's cold to her, giving her strict instruction to remain professional when it comes to the weapons they call Enforcers. Her first case is by no means an easy one - Gino actually tells her that she has 'awful luck' getting this case her first night on the job. It involves a man who was flagged by a street scanner as likely to commit a crime, and does so as he flees the offer of treatment and takes a woman hostage. Eventually they capture him and Kogami disposes of the kidnapper with ease, but when the Dominators are pointed at the hostage - who has undergone great stress and who's Psycho-Pass has clouded as a result - Akane goes on the defensive and fires her Dominator at Kogami to paralyze him in order to stop him killing the hostage. Akane calms the woman down enough that she can be taken for rehabilitation, but Ginoza is less than happy with her emotion-fuelled decision making. However, when Kogami returns he sides with Akane and says that she made the right decision.

The team starts to form and Akane begins to fit in, getting closer to every member, but particularly Kogami. Their unit solves many crimes that at first seem unrelated, but which all challenge the capabilities and effectiveness of the Sibyl System. Soon Kogami realises a thread that links all the cases, which leads him back to a trail he's been following for years: the culprit of the Specimen Case, the still unsolved murder that lead Kogami on his downward spiral to becoming an Enforcer. Gino rejects the link immediately, insisting that Kogami is merely projecting, but is soon proved wrong as an eerily similar case to the Specimen Murders occurs. Gino takes Kogami off the case instantly and tasks Akane to keep an eye on him and in return Kogami shows her evidence from the unsolved case; a blurry picture of one of the culprits, Makishima.

Using his keen profiling skills, Kogami deduces that the culprit of these murders and the string of murders that culminated in Sasayama's death are not the same person as these murders lack the social commentary that the previous killings did. They identify and target the person responsible for the current murders, but she escapes them.

Kogami takes an interested Akane to visit his former teacher, Saiga, who agrees to school her in profiling, but when they return Gino scolds Kogami as everyone who has taken Saiga's Criminology Course suffered a deteriorating Psycho-Pass due to the lesson's content. He calls Akane a child for being so naive and careless with her position, and accuses her of putting her Psycho-Pass at risk of being dragged down into the mud like Kogami's. He reminds her that the reason Inspectors have Enforcers is so that they can do their dirty work while Inspectors protect their own minds, that she shouldn't be trying to think like a criminal or she might develop the capability to become one. She argues that what he's describing isn't team work, and that they should be focusing on solving cases rather than protecting their Psycho-Passes. She goes on to finally put him in his place, reminding him that she is his equal in terms of rank and that he's out of line to continually question her capability in the workplace.

In her anger, she storms out and threatens to file a complaint to the Bureau Chief regarding Ginoza's behaviour, but is stopped by Masaoka who attempts to talk her out of it by explaining Gino's past and his feelings of betrayal - once by his father, and then by his best friend - subtly without ever mentioning that he himself is Gino's father. Akane understands, but asks "Does he have to be such a jerk about it?" to which Masaoka responds "No, he doesn't. But you have lots of friends and family at home, don't you?" implying that Gino is terribly lonely after losing the people he cares about, and only lashes out at those who he feels are needlessly risking their Hue because he's afraid of watching it happen again.

Later, Gino and Division 1 assemble at the entrance of an underground hideout, summoned by Akane who explains that she received an email from her school friend, Yuki, requesting that they meet up there. Kogami went in first as he was suspicious it was a trap while Akane tracked his progress, but suddenly he disappeared off the map as if he'd gotten on a vehicle of some kind... but with the entrance conveniently flooded with toxic water, they can't investigate. Gino chastises her for her carelessness and says that Kogami 'escaped' her, suggesting he might have staged it so he could make a break for it. They eventually find out that an old subway line cut across from the meet-up point, and follow the tracks to another station entrance.

Ginoza and his team set up a relay close to the subway line, and Gino demands that when they see Kogami they must shoot him immediately with the Dominator and that there's no need to warn him. Akane implores that they still don't know if he was actually trying to run away, but Gino counters her and says that the Sibyl System will make that decision for them; if he did nothing wrong then his Crime Coefficient will be the same as the last time Akane shot him, and he'll be paralysed... but if not, then it will kill him. The cymatic scan is never wrong, it will reveal his true intention. Of course Akane can't stand for that. She demands to know if he'd really be okay with killing him, especially since he used to be his friend, but Ginoza says that if he did end up dying it would be purely down to Akane's poor supervision, that if she had any control over Kogami then they wouldn't be in this position. Then, he asks her how it feels knowing that someone could die because of her incompetence. Then it's Masaoka's time to speak up. He bodily lifts Gino off the floor with his robotic arm and throws him aside, chastising him for being hard on Akane. Visibly shocked, Gino is speechless. Then they get a call from Kogami.

Kogami hurriedly requests backup and tells them there's a hostage situation. Ginoza, realising that Kogami wasn't trying to run away and was just caught up in something dangerous, demands that they send in the drones at random and that they make sure at least one of them reaches him. After receiving a Dominator from one of the drones Kogami finds and kills Senguji, but is wounded in the process and is unable to stop Makishima kidnapping Yuki. The team find Kogami and Masaoka struggles to stabilize his wounds while Akane runs after Makishima. When she returns she tells everyone that Makishima is immune to the Dominator, and that his Crime Coefficient actually fell to zero as he killed Yuki right before her eyes.

Later, in a session with his therapist, Gino is told that his Crime Coefficient, which has been steadily increasing for the past four months, has gone up seven points and is now something that cannot be ignored. If it gets any worse, Gino will have to be reported to his superiors. His therapist suggests that he talks to someone with whom he's very close like a lover or a family member. But of course, Gino doesn't have a girlfriend and his father is.. well..

Ginoza has a meeting with the head of the MWPSB, Joushuu Kasai, regarding Makishima's apparent immunity to the Dominator. She reveals to him the existence of very rare cases where a person can be criminally asymptomatic - unreadable and therefore unjudgeable by the Sibyl System - by showing him the arrest record of Kouzoburou Touma, the main suspect in The Specimen Case, the unsolved case that saw to Kogami becoming an Enforcer. Enraged, Gino demands to know why his Division wasn't told about his arrest, and she goes on to tell him that, like Makishima, Touma was criminally asymptomatic and confirms the likelihood that Makishima was involved with him. After assuring him that Touma has been taken care of and that no-one else has fallen prey to him since his arrest she swears him to secrecy and urges him to keep his doubts away from the public eye (and from Sibyl's eye) by telling him that the PSB "is really just the tail of our system's body, and the general public only recognises and understands the system through that tail", therefore putting a great amount of stress and responsibility on Gino's shoulders. Nevertheless, he agrees to re-write his report and is then tasked with capturing Makishima alive.

Akane decides to undergo a memory scoop - a relatively new process intended to visualise a witnesses memories by directly reading their brainwaves - which means she'll have to re-live seeing her friend die all over again which will put her Psycho-Pass in danger of deteriorating. Gino expresses his own fears that she'll become a latent criminal if her Psycho-Pass clouds too much but Akane is determined because they have been instructed to keep what they experienced secret and have not been permitted to undergo a public investigation; so she sees this as the only way. After the scoop her Psycho-Pass recovers quickly, and they successfully get a clear picture of Makishima's face.

Following this, Ginoza calls Masaoka onto a balcony of the MWPSB building for a talk and asks him why he thinks Akane's Hue doesn't get clouded and how she manages her stress so well. Masaoka tells him that he thinks it's because Akane accepts things as they are - "She acknowledges society, then forgives it, then moves on." - and then goes on to compare it to his own situation. Masaoka doubted society and let his anger get the better of him, and admits that he wants Gino to be careful, because he doesn't want to see him doubt his job one day and become a latent criminal the next - he doesn't want him to fall into the same spiral he did.

This conversation is the last thing Gino will remember before arriving in MoM.

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