Hitai de Bodemloze

Hitai de Bodemloze
Badges/Roles:	Citizen, Civitate, Artifex, Content Emeritus , Patrician
Patron:	Robin de Bodemloze
House:	House de Bodemloze
Forum Profile:	Here

Hitai de Bodemloze is a former editor of the Critic's Quill, serving in the role from March 2015 through to September 2015. He is best known on Total War Center for his creative writing and Content work, as well his service to the Curia.

Originally known as f0ma, he joined the forum in 2013 after being inspired by Robin de Bodemloze's AAR Takeda. He quickly came to make himself at home in the Writers' Study, penning his first AAR and a number of creative writing pieces. In 2014, Robin de Bodemloze became editor of the Critic's Quill, and invited Hitai to join his team as a junior Content Staffer. After Robin's resignation from the Quill, Hitai eventually rose to the rank of Deputy Editor under his successor m_1512. Being groomed to take over the publication in light of m's upcoming promotion to the Hexagon Council, Hitai had a profound effect on the publication's philosophy, emphasizing professional literary criticism and a more theoretical examination of AAR writing. At around the same time, he also took up a position in the so-called 'Triumvirate' as part of the traditional three-man team running the Writers' Study. During this time, Hitai was awarded Citizenship under the patronisation of Robin, as one of the first Citizens appointed in the post-CdeC period. After m's promotion to Hex in 2015, Hitai was promoted to Editor of the Quill, retiring from the Writers' Study team at the same time. During his tenure as a Content Staffer and active member of the Writers' Study, Hitai was awarded an Emerald Scribe's Quill, a Gold Writers' Study Medal, the Librarian's Choice Award in the 2014 Scriptorium Writing Competition, Best Writer in the 2015 Member Awards, and a Phalera.

Like his father, Hitai's reign as editor was an unfortunately short one, as real life commitments forced him away from the site, and eventually into retirement. Like many ex-staffers, Hitai would go on to become a regular in the Curia. In the Curia, Hitai was known as a conservative and a traditionalist, favouring the preservation of the status-quo, as well as advocating for a return to past practices and principals. He was one of the few vocal supporters of bringing back the CdeC in the modern era. Like many other conservative-minded Curialists, Hitai effectively retired from Curial politics after the passing of the Curial Overhaul 66 bill in early 2019. In his years as a Curialist, he served as a replacement Censor once in 2015, as well as a full two terms in the role in 2018, where he was forced to take over as de facto Curator on two separate occasions, in what would come to be known as the 'Year of the Four Curators'. During this period he would also join the unfortunate ranks of Curial Officers subjected to a Vote of No Confidence - the vote however, thankfully for him, failed. He would later serve an uneventful term as Magistrate in 2019, presiding over a total of zero cases.

Hitai now spends his time lurking the forums and occasionally posting in the Writers' Study, still trying to pen a magnum opus that might rival his father's masterpiece.

Biography

A Conservative in the Curia (2017 - 2020)

Post-Order 66 Contributions

After having retired from Curial politics, Hitai only returned to the Curia several times, largely to complain about the current state of affairs and the supposed failings of Order 66.

In October 2019, after seeing that no applications were forthcoming, Hitai put himself forward for the Magistrate's position, to replace TheDarkKnight, whose term had come to and end. Hitai would run against PikeStance, beating the elder Curialist by 5 votes to 3. His term was largely uneventful however, as it came during a general lull in disciplinary activity following the permanent banning of several high profile debaters and repeat offenders. General Brewster would replace Hitai in February 2020.

In April of that year, several discussions began about the state and future of the Curia, including Imperator Majora's This and That about the Curia and Finlander's Strategic Vision of TWC. Although pessimistic about his chances and largely resigned to the fact that his era of the Curia was ended, he nevertheless posted several times to share his thoughts. After receiving positive feedback, Hitai designed and proposed his own strategic vision for the site and the Curia, entitled House Cup 2.0. This proposal was in effect an expanded and improved version of Inkie and Derpy Hooves' 2014 House Cup proposal. In the proposal, Hitai advocated for a re-imagining of the Curia along social lines, wherein the Houses of Total War Center could mobilize to organize competitions and social events in order to inspire sustained site-wide activity. Despite some positive feedback, it failed to effectively galvanize the Curia or attract the requisite enthusiasm to make it possible, with a general consensus that it would be too much work. Hitai abandoned the proposal, content nevertheless that he had however, - at long last -, finally put his money where his mouth was and put forward his own vision for change.

Hitai still hopes to one day return to his project in the Living History Forum, Xiao shuo, a complete history of the Writers' Study during Hitai's heyday from 2013 to 2015. He is also hoping to write an expansive history of the modern Curia, from the abolition of the CdeC through to the promulgation of Order 66. Aside from these projects, he no longer actively participates in Curial policy making.

Returning to the Study (2020 - Present)

During his Curial years, Hitai had sporadically participated in his old stomping ground of the Writers' Study, penning two abortive AARs. These were the 2015 Yue Fei, a Medieval II: Total War AAR using the Chinese language Shaoding: The Road to Luoyang mod. The second was an Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim AAR entitled Reforged, attempted in 2019. Neither were successful, but both provided Hitai with valuable experience and served as effective lessons in experimental AARtistry that he would be able to take forward in the future.

In November 2018 Hitai won Tale of the Week 285: Haunted and, later in April 2019, Tale of the Week 290: Colonialism. These victories brought Hitai to 35 Writers' Study points, making him the joint highest point's earner in Writers' Study history, alongside his old friend and rival Merchant of Venice.

After many years away, Hitai announced his formal return to the Writers' Study community in October 2020 with a new Shogun 2 AAR entitled Osaka, a retelling of the famous historical siege of Osaka in 1614-1615. He has tentatively stated that he hopes this AAR will be the one he finally is able to finish.

Current/Former Badges and Roles

Badge	Description
	2014 - present.
	2018 - present.
	2018 - present.
	Content Staffer for the Writers' Study and the Critic's Quill. Later Deputy Editor of the Critic's Quill, 2014 - 2015.
	Content Director for the Critic's Quill. Briefly Content Director for the Helios, 2015 - 2016
	2018 - present (Phalera awarded in 2016).
	Three terms, 2015, 2018.
	One term, 2019 - 2020.

Awards Achieved

Award	Type	Reason
	Phalera	Awarded for exceptional contribution in the Content and associated areas of the TWC boards amongst many other stellar contributions, please accept this with out thanks. Received on March 19, 2016.
	Scribe's Quill (Emerald)	For your stellar work in Content and a progressive reign in the CQ. Our thanks and a small quill as our appreciation and hope for your return to staff. Received on September 23, 2015.
	2015 Member Award Winner	Awarded for winning Best Writer in the 2015 Site Awards. Congratulations! Received on May 30, 2016.
	Scriptorium Writing Competition Librarian's Choice	For The Presidence of Ambriel, Librarian's Choice in the 2014 Scriptorium Summer Writing Competition! Congratulations! Received on November 23, 2014.
	Writers Study Competition Medal (Gold)

Trivia

• At last count, Hitai is one of only five people to use the vB4 Default skin on the forums - the least used skin. However, as he is in the company of GrnEyedDvl, he believes he has made the correct choice.
• Is the only staff member of the Critic's Quill to ever have had to review one of his own pieces of writing.
• Was once the sole contributor of articles for an issue of the Critic's Quill - the only time in the history of any Content publication where this has happened.
• Despite not being patronized for his modding or debating ability (as he doesn't have any), he is a member of both the Artifex and Civitate Groups. This is a holdover from when he served as de facto Curator.
• Is one of the few members to have the Tournaments Joined and Tournaments Won tabs listed underneath his avatar on the forums. This is owing to his having participated in the now defunct TWC Olympics in 2014, where he was knocked out in the semi-finals of the Chess category by someone he still suspects to have cheated.

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