Application: nowrejoice

[spotskings]

Player} Cookie (noonereally)
Age} 24
Other Characters} n/a but another reserve.

Character Name} Tatara Totsuka.
Series} K (anime) and the manga that serves as its prequel, K: Memory of Red
Canon Point} post-death.
Age} 22
Suitability} n/a
History} Go go wiki ranger!
Personality}
Most notably, Totsuka is a people-person. He likes people, enjoys being with people, and he reads people well, which is a great prerequisite in any given setting. Given his impossibly persistent optimism, this can make him look naive, but he simply chooses to look at the good in people a lot of the time, opting to be the calm person when someone is upset or angry. This displays impressive emotional strength on his part as well, as, even under threat of injury or death, he can remain calm. Though, on the note of threat of physical harm: Totsuka is a pacifist to the bone. He doesn't do harming people, he doesn't want anybody to come to harm because of him, period. How this fits in with him being a member of Homra, which looks like a gang of vaguely superpowered thugs?

...Yeah, nobody actually knows.

Which is to say, Totsuka is weird. He's weird even to his teammates and to his two best friends, nobody knows what he's even doing among them, but that doesn't deter him any. In the country where everyone is very careful about everyone else's personal space, he gestures broadly and dramatically and often, in the language and surroundings where respect is key, he doesn't bother using suffixes, nicknames not withstanding, and so, in a rag tag bunch of fighting types, he is the lone pacifist.

This is not to say he doesn't get in trouble. Because he does. He is optimistically reckless, never one to sweat the small stuff because he's sure it will all work out somehow. And he's never been wrong about it, it always does somehow work out, and the odds are in his favour in what looks like luck, but is mostly his people skills and guts at work. Despite a great deal of accidents, it saves him often enough - until that last time. And he kept saying he'd be more careful every time, too.
Still, this makes him a fairly carefree person, confident in his mindset and his abilities and simply in himself. This leads to him being pretty laid back, easy to get along with. Despite his weirdness, he's just nice, approachable and easy to talk to, and readily takes care of people who need a hand. It's his job in Homra to make sure new people learn the ropes, to be the person to turn to, and to make sure they feel part of the group, and he does it incredibly well, because he seems to see people for who they really are. (Even when they're coming at him with a knife, because he clearly has priorities.) Oftentimes he knows just what to say to people, placing armor piercing remarks with enough subtlety nobody gets embarassed, which just helps to drive the point home: Totsuka really cares about people. A lot.

But despite the responsibilities and being clearly intelligent, Totsuka is a goofball. Unashamed indoor skateboarding, and not taking himself nearly as seriously as his dramatics seem to imply as he talks about someone who's very soul was touched by something he did demonstrate that nicely. He's someone who seems to pick up a different hobby every month, someone who knows a lot about a broad range of topics, never settling for any one thing until he picked up the camera. Even that stuck more for sentimental reasons than anything else - as the memories with Homra are precious to him, he strives to keep them somehow, implying, despite his outward optimism, an awareness that one day it would end.
With all his hobbies though, it doesn't seem like Totsuka has a particular goal in life at all. He's happy where he's at, and it gives him the freedom to try out all sorts of things whenever he feels like it. Never the less he likely would've kept an open mind for anything that strikes his fancy, but if there's one thing to be said about his seemingly whimsical life choices, he does stick with them. There aren't a lot of middle schoolers who decide they will be a King's vassal one day and actually end up becoming exactly that.

Abilities}
Red Aura. ...is an ability all clansmen of the Red King have, a firey looking energy that can be emitted and controlled, best used for offense. But as we've never seen Totsuka fight, and it's canonically stated he just doesn't, nobody has any idea about what he can even do with it.
Otherwise he's a jack of all trades, knows some filming and some music and some cooking and some skateboarding and some things, yes, about bonsai tree care and doubtlessly a million other things completely useless for combat.
Baggage} Just the clothes on his back, his PDA, and his camera.
Notes} n/a!
Sample}
So if you read the sample links on Mikoto's app then these threads might look familiar.