false apathy

[RYUU TACHIBANA]

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[atrb=width,300][atrb=style,padding:10px;] RYUUNOSUKE TACHIBANA THIS IS THE THIRD CHIMERIC LUNAR SEA introduction Ryuu is one of the older student members of Strega. He is best known among his peers for being a chauffer for his fellow Strega members and playing babysitter for the youngest of their ranks. Due to a rather painful experience in his youth, Ryuu has sworn off emotional attachments to people and -to a lesser extent- things. His personality fluctuates between two extremes: apathy and anger. friendships Due to his personal code of non-involvement with people unless necessary, Ryuu isn’t exactly the easiest person to befriend. Regardless of whatever he may truly be thinking, his stubborn nature and the oath he made will make it near impossible for him to be close to anyone. The only one he considers a “friend” is Shinju, though it’s questionable if even that is a friendship. That being said, it’s still manageable to get on his good sides. If a person is persistent enough and maybe shares similar hobbies Ryuu might warm up to them. However, he relatively apathetic towards meeting new people and having acquaintances, provided they don’t annoy him. Within Strega it’s likely that any relationships he has with people will be that he drives them around if the organization requires it. Outside of Strega, classmates and possibly even customers from the sweets shop who recognize him would be great. adversaries Ryuu is notorious for being a bit of a grump in school and outside of it, for being near crazy when he looses his temper, so it would make sense that he has a lot of adversaries. Be they simply classmates that have rubbed him the wrong way or rivals out for blood during the Dark Hour. Despite being a healer, Ryuu is no pushover when it comes to fighting and coming from a military background he can safely say it’s been in his blood to fight since he was a kid. The odd thing about Ryuu and his hateships is that while he’s completely fine with receiving or giving out ruthless beatings when no one is around, out in public he still carries the childhood habit of saving face that was drilled into him growing up. So he’ll avoid a conflict if it’s out in the open, even at the expense of his rather inflated ego. romance Hahahahahaha.I really can’t see him being able to form a romantic relationship with his current insecurities. One-sided crushes however are completely acceptable. For those who care, Ryuu has had girlfriends' in the past, but they rarely lasted more than a few weeks. Mainly due to his sheer apathy about the whole “we’re dating” concept. CODED BY RAIN OF ON THE EDGE

[ITO AIRI]

Ryuu and Airi

Maybe acquaintances since they are in the same alliance, she would like to get to know a little bit more about Ryuu. She is very much does care about the people in the Strega since she had joined the strega. Maybe these two can get along just fine.

[ARIA FUJISAKI]

Ryuu being one of the less batshit insane people in Strega is always going to be a welcome sight in Aria's eyes (as she is so far the oldest member at 22) and even may feel a slight bit of pity for the guy for basically chauffeuring people around and being a general babysitter for the younger members of Strega (have you seen those kids, they are like, totally crazy! how do you put up with it?). In any case, *music*. Aria is going to be all over finding out Ryuu's music tastes given you know, the fact that she's a singer of a reasonably well-known indie band. Well, I think that could lead to some interesting avenues for interaction. Ultimately though, I think the big thing is that Aria is proooobably going to serve as one of the more "at least this group isn't full of crazies" factors around. That said though, at the moment, there's not tooo much that can be said. Anyway, it could be discussed further in MSN or Skype.

[RYUU TACHIBANA]

Ryuu && Airi
This suits him just fine. He'd probably have seen her a few times when working with Shinju in the Dark Hour. He'd find her a little overbearing if she tried to pry too much into his business, but casual questioning shouldn't be a bother.

Ryuu & Aria (both the a ladies today!)
Haha, I was actually thinking pretty much exactly this. Ryuu will view Aria as his saving grace amoung the organization for her maturity and her lack of crazy. She is actually the only memeber I can see him willingly becoming friends with because of this. They could start of simply discussing music, since being in a band is pretty swell (even if Ryuu won't admit it) and maybe this leads to them talking about the other members and she starts acting as a confidant for his frustrations? In return he'd probably offer to ferry her band/equipment around.