Post by Tsukimori Ryosuke on Jul 23, 2010 11:50:44 GMT -5
Name: Ryosuke Tsukimori
Age/Year in School: 3rd Year
Gender: Male
Profession: Student (though on some occasions, he is known to do some....not so nice jobs in addition)
Group: (Karasumori High School;; Member of the Karasumori Male Tumbling Team and Wataru's Gang)
Appearance:
Personality:
Ryosuke comes across as being the cool, confident type, when in actuality, he's rather far from it. Despite his suave exterior, inside, he's quite a bit emotional. He strongly believes in his friendships, perhaps to the point of becoming clingy. So when he is involved in fights with friends, not only does he often feel like he was betrayed, but he will go out of his way to show it too. But usually this sort of thing doesn't last, because deep down, he still loves and trusts his friends. His tendency is merely to storm off with the appearance that he doesn't give a damn, when really, it's just his immature half resorting back to what he used to do as a kid when he didn't get his way.
Ryosuke does have the tendency to retaliate--and rather quickly too--when he or someone he is close to is being threatened, but that's typically out of concern for those involved and not because he's got a sort of anger problem to work out. That being said, Ryosuke is definitely the type to worry about his image, or even the images of his friends.
However, one thing Ryosuke is most definitely not afraid of is girls. He's been in one too many relationships and gotten enough rejections from the more stubborn girls to become the fearless playboy he is. He knows all about the charm which is his smile and good looks, and he's quite keen on using them. More often than not, if he's not busy with the gang (either Wataru's or the Rhythmic Gymnastics team at his school), he's usually got one or two girls on his arm. That being said, even though his player-attitude will probably stay in tact for a very long while, Ryosuke is the type of guy who would adamantly watch out for his female relations. He feels a certain closeness to Wataru's mom, almost like she's his own, and for her or any other girl in his life, he wants to sort of keep watch over them. Whether it's something deep down he's truly concerned about or a need to match his devilishly good looks with some chivalry or both, even Ryosuke isn't quite sure. It just is.
Despite his weakness for girls and his strong reliance on his friendships, Ryosuke does well-enough in school that he manages to pass his classes. Naturally, on the streets, he is an expert and quite a skilled fighter, even if he still cannot beat his good friend Azuma. He's no doubt a playboy....but most importantly, he's a good friend and a good person too.
History:
Ryosuke was born to a middle-class family and spent a good majority of his early childhood as the only child, lots and lots of attention pouring in his way, until his sister came along. As a four-year-old with four years of too much attention, he was at first begrudging of the new kid in his life, namely because it was suddenly she, not he, who was getting all the attention. That was when he started doing not-so-nice things, if only because it was the naughty things that seemed to get his parents' to look his way, not his whining or occasional tantrums. This was likely the roots of his future school career as a Yankee.
As the years passed and Ryosuke went school, he began to get used to the lack of attention at home and started focusing his own upon his classmates. He discovered pretty early on that the girls in his class seemed to think he was "adorable". And even though, at first, that put him off as an elementary schooler, he realized he actually liked the way the girls looked at him or that all he had to do was smile or wave to make them happy. On the other hand, he tended to have a problem with the guys in his class who weren't his immediate friends. If one of his buddies got in a fight with another student, he was always one of the first to leap in. He had pretty close ties to all his friends, especially because he used to visit them quite a bit rather than stay at home, where he didn't get as much as attention as he might have wanted.
It was in middle school that things really changed. Ryosuke had become something of a celebrity at his own school--he had lots of friends, he'd started unofficially dating a girl or two, and all those other students who didn't "like" him avoided him out of fear. He and his friends had come to sort of "own" the classroom when the teacher wasn't around. Ryosuke would never hurt a girl--in fact, by this point, he'd gotten kind of used to his sister--but that didn't stop him from duking it out with any of the guys in class, at the least verbally.
So when all of a sudden Ryosuke's family decided to move from their urban hometown to a more quiet location, Ryosuke was the first to complain. Yet no amount of whining, yelling, or tantrum-throwing was going to win him this one, and as it had been when his little sister had come along, Ryosuke knew he would have to give up. He said bitter goodbyes to his friends, girlfriends, and even his enemies, and suddenly, he was living in a more suburban area. He made sure to let his parents know how "boring as hell" he thought it was.
It was in his last year of middle school, at the new school, that Ryosuke met Wataru, Nippori, and the gang. He was leery about attending the new school because, of course, he knew no one there, and he got the impression small-town folk were much different than city guys like himself.
He was right.
On his first day at his new school, Ryosuke was pleased to find that many of the girls there seemed interested in him, even if they didn't know him well.
But the guys were a huge problem. Ryosuke's Yankee-attitude must have been pretty obvious, because all the other Yankee guys in his class picked up on it right away. What ensued were many days of long, drawn-out arguments and fights between him and other classmates, in the classroom and outside of it. By the end of Ryosuke's last year in middle school, the apparent leader of the young group of Yankees, Wataru Azuma, was the only one he hadn't fought. Though he ended up earning quite some respect by fighting and beating other students, Ryosuke knew that if he didn't face off against the leader of them all, he would always be nothing. At the end of his middle school career, he finally got his chance to fight Wataru.
He lost. He'd greatly underestimated the other guy's fighting ability. But in the end, he earned a great friend. It was after that fight that Ryosuke found out what a good guy Wataru was, and after enjoying some of his mother's delicious omurice, the two of them became pretty solid friends. It was around this time too, seeing how close Wataru was with his own family, that Ryosuke realized how much he worried about his little sister. She was almost through with elementary school and would soon enter the middle-school level. Having been one himself, Ryosuke worried about the young Yankee-types who might try to pick her up. Even though he didn't spend as much time at home as he knew he should, and therefore didn't see his sister a lot, Ryosuke loved her and wanted to protect her. He also realized he had much of the same feelings for all the girls he ended up with too. Despite finding it all too easy to sweep them off their feet, or in the more difficult (but rare) cases, get himself slapped, Ryosuke knew he hated seeing a girl hurt in any way, and he wanted to protect them.
Now Ryosuke is in his final year of high school, and even though graduation is looming on the horizon, he's much the same as he was back in middle school, though his friendships are stronger than ever.
Codeword: Pineapple
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