Post by AKIRA UMEHARA on Feb 21, 2012 0:49:27 GMT -5
[/b]. With absentee parents and and an active mind that needed to be engaged by something, it's no surprise at all that Akira became the rabid anime otaku he is today. He watches pretty much anything under the sun, but mecha series will be his favourite until the end of time.
AKIRA UMEHARA
( My, what a shameless prodigy. )NAME,Akira Umehara is his name. A rather boring name for such a interesting individual, but we can't pick and choose everything we recieve in this life. Can we?
NICKNAME,Creeper kid is usually how he is addressed by his peers, which he takes slight offense too and little brat isn't much better. But, salvation name-wise comes in the form of his online handle MAXX.
AGE,Was born in the wee hours of the morning on a humid June 20th, his sister claims he did it on purpose to feed his ever perpetuating reuptation for being a huge pain in the ass. Akira is currently fifteen years old and it‘s been a hell of a fifteen year stretch for all those who have and continue to put up with him.
GENDER & PREFERENCE,Akira is a male-identified person and can be most easily described as heteroflexible. His interest is mainly in woman, but he‘s a become a bit infamous for saying he‘d “hit“ a trap if it was convincing enough. -and even if you can brush off that comment, you still have to deal with the fact that he is a self professed “cake eater“. Women over eighteen -and especially woman in their thirties- are Akira’s preferred age group.Not that he has ever managed to convince anyone to go out with him.
PROFESSION,He‘s a first-year high school student. He comes from an old-money family so the need and his desire to work are both fairly low.
At least in ordinary professions...
PERSONALITY,As Akira once said, he’s rarely ever “himself“.
After years of a steady rhetoric of “You’re annoying.” and “I hate you.” from his peers and a good majority of his family, he’s come to the conclusion that he’ll never be accepted by society. A rather depressing fact but -he believes- it’s the truth. In response to this rejection, Akira figured that if no one liked who he was he might as well have fun being someone else. He cycles through a number of characters -most of which come from anime, but sometimes come from books or historical figures- and imitates their behaviour, speech patterns and movements. Sometimes these characters are only around for a day and sometimes, they stick around for months. There have been many attempts by the adults in his life to break this habit, but every effort to threaten him or diagnose him with a personality disorder has been met with a shrugging therapist or thoroughly frustrated doctor.
When not “in character”, Akira presents himself as a cheerful young man who is wholy detached from society and cultural normality. He is a prodigy and has been praised as one since childhood, so why should he care? He speaks his mind and doesn’t let anything bother him; insults are like water on a duck’s back. But, the more people get to know him the more apparent this attitude isn’t entirely truthful.
Underneath all the posturing and theatrics Akira - the real Akira- is a actually a very mature and thoughtful individual. He takes his education and probably more importantly, the problems in the city around him, very seriously. Piles of manga and DVDs hide information notes on the Dark Hour, posters conceal maps and his constant grin hides the fact that he is quite aware of what is going on. -and frankly, it terrifies him.
LIKES & DISLIKES,
✔ Older women. It simply can not be understated. The sheer amount of time that Akira spends chasing, drooling and obssessing over older women is second to none.
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✔ Tinkering. A habit picked up during his sheltered youth, Akira really likes to take things apart, rebuild them and make new things...much to the chagrin of his caretakers and sister. In the early stages of experimenting Akira blew up most of his inventions, but now he's had some practice he has made some interesting and helpful gadgets.
✔ Green tea. He is convinced if you drink a "mature drink" you will attract mature women.
✖ Being reminded of his age. Akira likes to think of himself as being a "old soul trapped in a young body" and when people remind him he is just a sad little pipsqueak, he reacts in a truely mature fashion and pesters them until they apologise.
✖ Responsibilites. Akira dislikes being burdened by things, as more often than not responsibilities like homework and family obligation stop him from doing with he actually likes.
✖ People who fold the corners of books. If Akira finds out that you do this, he will scream. This is his biggest pet peeve. (Do you want to ruin his manga and great literature!?)
✖ Missing meals. Can't be a prodigy on an empty stomach!
✖ Being called a pervert. He prefers the term "overzealous admirer". Sadly, it doesn't seem to be catching on.
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ALLIANCE,
Akira works as an informant to fund his obsession with mecha models. He is currently neutral, but has his eyes on Nocturne and is considering joining their ranks.
WEAPON & TACTICS,
Akira carries around a pair of giant gardening sheers. Initially, he brought them along as a joke and to see if anyone would put two and two together and call him out on his video game reference, but when a chance run-in with a shadow on his rounds proved the sheers to be effective weapons when needed.
He's still waiting on someone to get the reference, though.
-and tactics? What tactics? Akira's not exactly a power-house of strength. If you can't be cut up by sissors, then he is running the hell away from you.
PERSONA,
Akira‘s persona happens to be the lovely Mara of the Tower Arcana. It is currently awakened, but the awakening in question happened rather recently.
ADDITIONAL NOTES,
- Akira is the second-child and only son of his rather influential family. His mother is the beloved daughter of a famous architect and is a traditional artist herself and his father comes from a long line of moderately successful politicians. Akira is infamous among his extended family for having his father nearly publicly disown him for his behaviour around his colleges and for being the reason they went and change the male-only inheritance laws so his sister could take over their estate. Needless to say, Akira doesn’t really get along with his family. His relationship with his father borderlines irrational hatred and his sister view him as an embarrassment. His only stable family relationship is with his mother who adores him but still scolds him for his “worrisome behaviour”.
- He runs a number of websites, but the most important and revelent of these would be his website on the Dark Hour where he goes by MAXX. Most of his informant jobs come through the website.
OOC NAME,
It‘s Abby again, here with the promised otaku-mara combo.[/size][/justify][/blockquote]
