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Player Information
Name: Kite
Age: 24
Current Characters: Metisredbutterfly
Contact: AIM: noonerly || plurk: accipitridae || personal DW:noonereally
Character Information
Name: Tatara Totsuka
Age: 22
Fandom: K (anime, and the manga K: Memories of Red, which serves as a prequel to the anime.)
Appearance: Young Japanese male with blond hair and brown eyes. Slim, fairly tall, well-dressed in a white shirt and slacks, with a piercing in his left ear. Usually carries a camera, and generally looks friendly and approachable.
History: Go go wiki ranger!
Canon Point: Pre-death, about 3 months before the events of the anime.
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, kind 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. Even when someone tried their level best to kill him, he will hide that from his friends so that nobody gets hurt in retaliation. 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 most of the time. All the time really, until that last one. And he kept saying he'd be more careful, too.
Still, this makes him seem a fairly carefree person, confident in his mindset and his abilities and simply in himself. It 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.
His other job at Homra is not really talked about openly, but still plain to see to the people who know them well: he is the one who keeps Mikoto in check. This might seem backwards: the weakest member of the group keeping the boss, the king, the most powerful one under control? Well, more like reinstating his selfcontrol. Totsuka and Mikoto go way back. They know each other very well, and again it's Totsuka's calm and his people skills that save the day here, because he can just come in and talk to him and help him keep a hold on his temper.
But despite the responsibilities and being clearly intelligent, Totsuka is a troll and 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. Notably, he's never in the videos much himself. In the manga, he says that he's not used to being caught on film, but again the implied awareness is there, and one of the novels puts an end to the implication altogether. He was told outright that if he was to stay with Homra, and more specifically, close to Mikoto, he would not live long. This was something he never told his friends. After all, whether it was true or not, there was hardly any point in fretting over it.
With all his hobbies, 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.
Game Specific
Suitability: (He really is the worst kind of person to drag into this, which is exactly why I want to.) Totsuka isn't unused to violence - Homra, the gang he is a part of and that basically makes up his life is nothing but fighters, and he has no illusions about what they do when they keep their turf clean. He's seen his share of nasty business, even though he's always chosen not to take part in it. Totsuka easily stays calm even under threat of physical harm or death, and doesn't seem frightened by the prospect of dying.
Honestly, I want to play him here mostly to see how far his pacifism will take him, to see how he can be pushed into compromising something he holds on to throughout canon.
Weapon:
Throwing knives. Set of five, very sharp, very pointy. The most likely upgrade would be to simply carry more, but really, I'm not sure he'd even want to use them on people at all.
Samples
Log/Third Person Sample:
Totsuka didn't like this city. He'd tried to, he had, after all, he'd never been to America before, so he'd wanted to give the place a chance at least. But in the end, Santa Destroy was almost impossible to like. The climate wasn't bad. The technology wasn't on a level he was used to, but that wasn't something that bothered him that much, not when he could still get a camera and a guitar somewhere. The people weren't all friendly, either, particularly the natives. Not that he smiled at them less, but it still became a little disheartening after a while, for sure. And then some of the other supposed assassins, well... they were disheartening for wholly different reasons. He didn't think he'd ever seen so many people in the same place who were so sad, so hurt and so desperate. And that was definitely something that made him feel less at home.
The bottom line was, though, this simply wasn't what he was used to. It wasn't Shizume City, and it certainly wasn't HOMRA, the bar he'd come to consider his home more than his own rented living space. The bottom line was, he was homesick.
But Totsuka laughed at the notion, softly, as he fussed about the small kitchen preparing curry like Kusanagi had showed him once, and making sure it was as red as it'd get, like Anna would've liked it, even if most of the others (Yata for sure, Kamamoto possibly but perhaps not, and Bandou, and-) would complain it was much too spicy that way. And if he made way too much of it, well... that might make a good reason to invite people over for lunch, wouldn't it? Everyone needed to eat after all, and it'd be nice to get to know everyone better. And since they were all stuck here, there was no reason not to have some good times together, too. Despite everything.
Journal Entry/First Person Sample: Birthdays in the middle of a war? It's more likely than you think.
Name: Kite
Age: 24
Current Characters: Metis
redbutterflyContact: AIM: noonerly || plurk: accipitridae || personal DW:
noonereallyCharacter Information
Name: Tatara Totsuka
Age: 22
Fandom: K (anime, and the manga K: Memories of Red, which serves as a prequel to the anime.)
Appearance: Young Japanese male with blond hair and brown eyes. Slim, fairly tall, well-dressed in a white shirt and slacks, with a piercing in his left ear. Usually carries a camera, and generally looks friendly and approachable.
History: Go go wiki ranger!
Canon Point: Pre-death, about 3 months before the events of the anime.
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, kind 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. Even when someone tried their level best to kill him, he will hide that from his friends so that nobody gets hurt in retaliation. 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 most of the time. All the time really, until that last one. And he kept saying he'd be more careful, too.
Still, this makes him seem a fairly carefree person, confident in his mindset and his abilities and simply in himself. It 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.
His other job at Homra is not really talked about openly, but still plain to see to the people who know them well: he is the one who keeps Mikoto in check. This might seem backwards: the weakest member of the group keeping the boss, the king, the most powerful one under control? Well, more like reinstating his selfcontrol. Totsuka and Mikoto go way back. They know each other very well, and again it's Totsuka's calm and his people skills that save the day here, because he can just come in and talk to him and help him keep a hold on his temper.
But despite the responsibilities and being clearly intelligent, Totsuka is a troll and 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. Notably, he's never in the videos much himself. In the manga, he says that he's not used to being caught on film, but again the implied awareness is there, and one of the novels puts an end to the implication altogether. He was told outright that if he was to stay with Homra, and more specifically, close to Mikoto, he would not live long. This was something he never told his friends. After all, whether it was true or not, there was hardly any point in fretting over it.
With all his hobbies, 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.
Game Specific
Suitability: (He really is the worst kind of person to drag into this, which is exactly why I want to.) Totsuka isn't unused to violence - Homra, the gang he is a part of and that basically makes up his life is nothing but fighters, and he has no illusions about what they do when they keep their turf clean. He's seen his share of nasty business, even though he's always chosen not to take part in it. Totsuka easily stays calm even under threat of physical harm or death, and doesn't seem frightened by the prospect of dying.
Honestly, I want to play him here mostly to see how far his pacifism will take him, to see how he can be pushed into compromising something he holds on to throughout canon.
Weapon:
Throwing knives. Set of five, very sharp, very pointy. The most likely upgrade would be to simply carry more, but really, I'm not sure he'd even want to use them on people at all.
Samples
Log/Third Person Sample:
Totsuka didn't like this city. He'd tried to, he had, after all, he'd never been to America before, so he'd wanted to give the place a chance at least. But in the end, Santa Destroy was almost impossible to like. The climate wasn't bad. The technology wasn't on a level he was used to, but that wasn't something that bothered him that much, not when he could still get a camera and a guitar somewhere. The people weren't all friendly, either, particularly the natives. Not that he smiled at them less, but it still became a little disheartening after a while, for sure. And then some of the other supposed assassins, well... they were disheartening for wholly different reasons. He didn't think he'd ever seen so many people in the same place who were so sad, so hurt and so desperate. And that was definitely something that made him feel less at home.
The bottom line was, though, this simply wasn't what he was used to. It wasn't Shizume City, and it certainly wasn't HOMRA, the bar he'd come to consider his home more than his own rented living space. The bottom line was, he was homesick.
But Totsuka laughed at the notion, softly, as he fussed about the small kitchen preparing curry like Kusanagi had showed him once, and making sure it was as red as it'd get, like Anna would've liked it, even if most of the others (Yata for sure, Kamamoto possibly but perhaps not, and Bandou, and-) would complain it was much too spicy that way. And if he made way too much of it, well... that might make a good reason to invite people over for lunch, wouldn't it? Everyone needed to eat after all, and it'd be nice to get to know everyone better. And since they were all stuck here, there was no reason not to have some good times together, too. Despite everything.
Journal Entry/First Person Sample: Birthdays in the middle of a war? It's more likely than you think.