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Itsuki Susaki; I feel like we've been here before
Topic Started: Jun 18 2013, 04:14 PM (293 Views)
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Name: Itsuki Susaki (数 樹)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

School/Occupation: Tenshihishou High School, class 2-C

Clubs: Soccer Club

Interests/Hobbies: Reads a lot of manga and is a secret tokusatsu fan even though he’s way too old for that kind of stuff. Good luck getting him to admit the latter, though.

Appearance:
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When Itsuki hit puberty, he got hit pretty hard by the pretty stick. He doesn’t have any baby fat remaining in his face or his body and his face is thin and angular without being too creepy looking. He’s lean and wiry, but also muscular. He’s got long legs and stands at about 5’10”. He’s got a light tan due to how much time he spends outside. His hair is black and always sticks up no matter how much he tries to comb it. The most striking part of his appearance is his eyes: he has complete heterochromia, so his left eye is blue while his right is brown. (it runs in his family, and his little sister and his mother share the same eye colors)

When in school, he wears his uniform loosely, with the jacket undone to reveal whatever shirt he’s decided to wear under it (which is usually some kind of t-shirt instead of the white button-ups they’re supposed to wear). Outside of school he typically wears loose pants and a t-shirt with a loose jacket. Sometimes he’ll wear jewelry, like a necklace or a ring or something, but usually he doesn’t care enough to wear those things.

Personality: Itsuki doesn’t speak up much, and when he does, it’s usually short, fairly rude, right to the point sentences. He’s stubborn and not easily dissuaded from doing what he wants. His bluntness usually puts people off, and the fact that he usually seems completely disinterested in anything anyone else is doing puts them off even more. It’s not that he doesn’t care about people, it’s just that he is usually more interested in whatever he’s doing than whatever your personal problems are. He prefers to listen to whatever you’re saying than to engage in conversation, and is quite comfortable with just listening.

He doesn’t trust people very easily, especially if they complement him in any way or ask him out. Even when he knows that they’re sincere with their complements, he come to see them as nothing but vehicles to further bullying. If you talk to him first he’s more likely to distrust you than if he approached you himself.

He has a younger sister named Kaede, and while he doesn’t seem to care much about most things, he cares a lot about his sister. He’ll playfully tease her and act friendlier around her than he does with anyone else he knows. Dare to make fun of her in his vicinity or try and put her down and he might just decide to correct you in the only way he knows how: with violence.

History: Itsuki lived in Yokohama for most of his life. His parents were an average salaryman and housewife, though his mother eventually went back to work after his sister was born. He was taught to be polite and helpful and all of those things parents try to do. Too bad that he went to an average Japanese school that came with all of the problems an average Japanese school did. The school had a massive bullying problem that was purposefully overlooked by the teachers because they did not want to cause any trouble, and Itsuki with his odd appearance was right on their short list of people to bully.

He was shoved into puddles and his things were stolen. Someone punched him in the eye, saying that the black and blue bruise would finally match his blue eye. Insults were written on his desk every day and he had to clean them himself. The only time the teacher even stepped in was when someone carved an insult into his desk with a knife and they only bothered to step in because it was damage to school property. Itsuki quickly learned that authority figures wouldn’t do anything to help him. He became ashamed of the fact that he was being bullied and wouldn’t bring it up to anyone.

He joined the soccer team in middle school as an attempt to vent his frustrations elsewhere, but ended up being benched for most games because he was just too aggressive on the field. The last straw came when his bullies broke into the locker room, stole his cleats, and strung them up on the power lines in front of the school. He tried to fight them on the field and was pulled off by school officials. He was suspended from the school for his fight and for stringing his shoes on the power lines.

While he was suspended, his father was transferred to another position in Yumegawa and the whole family moved with him. Even after Itsuki transferred into a new school he was still nervous around people and stopped talking to them for the most part, preferring to remain quiet. His grades continued to suffer, but they were better than they’d been in Yokohama. But when it came time for high school entrance exams Itsuki’s grades suddenly climbed higher than they’d ever been and he managed to get grades high enough to get into Tenshihishou High, not Kasuhayashi High like his grades had suggested for some time. The rumors said that he’d cheated to get grades that good, but in truth, he’d just wanted to avoid another situation like his middle school years.

He continues to focus mostly on soccer and not too much on his grades, though he always crams enough to pass when it comes time for exams. The rumors of amnesiacs in the town are concerning, but not enough for him to care.

Weapons/Equipment/Combat Skill: Itsuki’s been in a few fights and has some fighting ability, but he’s never been formally trained and lacks skill. That being said, he knows how to kick well and generally relies on that in fights.

Initial Persona:

- Name: Baldr
- Arcana: I: The Magician
- Drain:
- Reflect:
- Null: Phys
- Resist:
- Weak: Wind, Earth
- Initial Skills: Sonic Punch, Life Drain, Hama

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Roleplay Sample:

“Did you hear?”

“About what?”

“Susaki.”

“Ugh, that guy who sits in the back of the room all of the time? He’s cute, but…”

“Yeah, yeah. Anyways, apparently he’s a huge siscon. I guess otaku types are all the same, huh?”

Itsuki propped his feet up on his desk and flipped to the next page of his comic. The usual rumors and the usual whisperings about him. He was more interested in what Exploder Takato and his rocket powered fist were doing this week than some teenage gossip about him, his potential love life, his potential romantic interests, et cetera, et cetera. He chewed on the end of a lollipop that he’d already eaten the candy from and flipped to the next page, which was entirely taken up by an overly detailed black and white explosion and accompanying sound effects.

“Hey! Susaki-san. Psst!”

He looked over his feet to see that the girls who’d been gossiping at the front of the room were now in front of his desk and uncomfortably close to him. They’d bent over so that they could look into his eyes, too. Considering what they’d been talking about before, there was no way this conversation was going to be pleasant at all.

“What?” he asked. They needed to hurry up and leave so he could read his comic.

“You’ve got a sister, right?”

“Yeah.” His eyes moved to the next page, where Takato was trying to push himself back to his feet after V-13 had knocked him to the ground. Takato’s arm had a crack down the middle and was smoking, and there was blood running down Takato’s forehead. This was a very important scene.

“So how old is she?”

“11.”

“Aww, she sounds cute!”

“She is.”

“I bet she’d look cute in some frilly dresses. I bet I’ve got some I can lend to you!”

“She doesn’t wear dresses. She wears my hand me downs.”

“What?! But girls need cute skirts to wear!”

“No they don’t. There’s nothing wrong with her wearing my clothes.” They weren’t leaving. Was he going to need to move? And what gave them the right to say what Kaede could or couldn’t wear anyways? “Anyways, she’s a painter. They’d just get ruined anyways.”

“A painter?!” The girls traded glances. “But that’s such a boy thing to do.”

“Don’t be so closeminded, Miyo. It’s totally cool for a girl to be a tomboy.”

“Yeah, but this is going way beyond tomboy. She’s wearing his clothes! What, is that some weird fetish or something, Susa—“

He stood up and closed his book. “There is nothing wrong with my sister. Are you trying to imply that there is something wrong with how she’s being raised to my face? Because last time I checked, this wasn’t your business, or your friend’s business, or anyone’s business but my own. If you’d like to keep complaining, I can take you up on your complaints behind the school.” He cracked his knuckles.

The girls stood up straight and gave him a worried, yet annoyed look. “Ugh, whatever. Go back to reading your manga, Susutaku.” They walked back to the front of the room. He shrugged and sat back down in his desk.

Where had he been? Oh, right. V-13 was about to deal the finishing blow to Takato, who was no longer able to fight now that his rocket fist was broken…
Edited by FirebreathFishslap, Jun 18 2013, 07:21 PM.
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