Post by shou on Sept 10, 2011 13:31:51 GMT -5
SHOU KYOHEI RIITAKI
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You were the fighter, I was the kid against the world
I heard that nothin's gonna hold you down.
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AGE/DOB: 18. August 28th 1977.
YEAR: Seventh
HOUSE: Ravenclaw
AFFILIATION: Neutral
SEXUALITY: Hetero.[/SIZE]
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EYE DETAILS: His eyes are a dark chocolate brown. Sometimes he'll wear reading glasses, but he doesn't really need glasses.
HEIGHT/WEIGHT/BUILD: He’s not your stereotypical ‘short’ asian male. He leans more on the taller side of the gene pool, standing straight at 5’8” and weighing between 143 – 146 pounds, most of which is muscle from playing soccer and various other muggle sports.
FACE:
STYLE: He doesn’t really have a specific ‘style’, he wears whatever is comfortable to him and what’s practical concerning the weather outside. He likes to wear a lot of hoodies and zippered jackets though and loves plaid patterned things.
FEELINGS: He has a hard time expressing his feelings to others so unless you’re rather close to him or know him exceptionally well you probably won’t ever know what’s going on in that pretty head of his. Shou doesn’t really care for the Wizarding War—yes he thinks that killing senselessly is an atrocious thing but he’s not going to just jump into the fight. Unless someone he personally knows and cares for is harmed, then he won’t bother taking part in the war.
PLAYED BY: Kamenashi Kazuya <3[/SIZE]
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[/color][/font]MAN, BACK WHEN I HAD A BODY, OOH. I HAD MAD GAME
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- Food of all kinds!
- Miso soup
- Animals [he’s really a big softy! <3]
- Traveling
- Visiting family in Osaka
- Sukiyaki [it’s his favorite meal!]
- Flying
- Walking through Dotonbori in Osaka Prefecture at night
- Nightlife & neon lights
- Winning arguments/fights.
- Being praised
- Music [mostly j-pop & j-rock, but he’ll occasionally listen to English music]
- Soccer, baseball, and Quidditch
- Eating
LOATHES:
- Losing
- Being punished
- Assholes who automatically assume that he can’t speak English
- Overwhelmingly emotional situations
- Not making the grade
- Food that’s passed its expiration date
- Being hungry
- Curry rice
- Animal abuse
- Bullies
BOGGART: Being alone; his friends and family abandoning him.
DEMENTOR: When he was about 12 or 13 he got into a particularly bad fight over the summer, he had been sent to the hospital with 3 bruised ribs and a broken arm. It was one of the first times he'd ever seen his father cry and it really bothered him since his father had always been that strong man to him--it really hit home that his poor decisions affect his family too and not just himself...
PATRONUS: Tanuki (Raccoon Dog)
He doesn't remember what holiday it was, but the entire family was together in Osaka, even his mother's parents, and everyone was just sitting around eating a delicious traditional meal that his grandparents had cooked up. Shou loves the feeling of being loved and feeling a part of something, and being there with his family, exchanging stories, and just enjoying a peaceful evening with them really made an impact on him. He, one day, would like to have his own family and be able to do that with them as well...
AMORENTIA: Cherry Blossoms. Rain. Vanilla. Spearmint.
VERITASERUM:
+ He once kissed a guy, it was one of his best friends back in Osaka and it was around the age that most kids experiment with their sexuality. But after that incident he decided that he wasn’t into guys. He and his friend never talked about it again and never told anyone either.
+ Used to dream about becoming an international football [soccer] star.
STRENGTHS:
+ Physical fights as well as magical ones
+ Thinking on his feet
+ His athleticism
WEAKNESSES:
- Has issues with expressing himself/his emotions
- His temper
- His impatience
OVERVIEW: Shou is quite bright and it’s really no wonder that he got landed in Ravenclaw his first year. He grew up with the stereotypical asian parents who hounded him on his grades, which is what lead to him becoming rather concerned with his grades and his future—though he may come off as indifferent and careless, he really does think about the future and what it holds for him.
He’s been known to have a terrible temper and often tries to keep it in check as best as he can while at school but it can be a little difficult for him to do so, often ending in him starting arguments or physical fights. He’s not afraid to toss aside his wand and give a swift punch to someone’s face. To go with his short temper he’s also rather impatient and it especially frustrates him when he grasps a concept quickly but the rest of the class doesn’t. You can easily tell when he’s angry or frustrated because he’ll furiously scratch his head, ruffling up his hair in irritation to try to calm himself down.
Despite his faults, Shou really is a decent guy and an incredibly loyal friend to have on your side. He’ll defend his friends until the very end. However, if you don’t know him well enough he can be rather hard to read and understand and he has issues with expressing his emotions. For example, if he has a crush on someone and he doesn’t know how to express those feelings he may regress back to pre-school age, where boys would call the girls they were crushing on names, or insult them. He doesn’t mean it, he just doesn’t know how to go about telling someone how he feels and it’s almost an automatic response for him to call someone an ‘idiot’.
He’s got a love for animals, as a child he would bring home stray animals almost every week and not just dogs and cats, but he’d also bring home reptiles, injured birds, small mammals such as rabbits and mice and even one time brought home a baby chicken! He enjoys taking care of animals, playing with them, and just all around feeling needed.
While the above traits may make him out to be a jerk, he really isn’t like that—he’s got a sense of humor and will smile or laugh if someone tells a particularly funny joke or says something that he finds to be witty.
His biggest pet peeve is when people automatically assume that, since he’s not European, that he doesn’t speak English or know it very well and that annoys him to no end. He grew up speaking both Japanese and English and can speak them both fluently. Since he mainly grew up in Ireland he speaks with an Irish accent when speaking English, and when he speaks Japanese, since he’s originally from Osaka, he speaks with a Kansai accent.
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FATHER: Kousuke Riitaki, 57, Magical Law Enforcement, Order
Both of his parents attended the Tokyo Academy of Magic.
SIBLINGS: Kaiya --- Riitaki, sister, 15, Order, Gryffindor
OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES:
His grandparents in both Osaka and Sapporo
Sora, his Short-eared Owl
Issun, his black lab.
WEALTH STATUS: Middle-class.
BIRTHPLACE: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Wexford, Ireland
OVERVIEW: His mother, Akii, was born to a Muggle and a Halfblood wizard in Sapporo and his father, Kousuke, came from a predominantly magical family in Osaka. The two met during their 3rd year of school, they both attended the Tokyo Academy of Magic; the premier magic school for witches and wizards who live on the island nation of Japan. It wasn't love at first sight, like most stories often start out as, however. Kousuke was an arrogant young man and was used to getting everything he wanted, so when his sights fell on Kurosawa Akii he automatically assumed that since he was who he was; handsome and rich Riitaki Kousuke, that she would immediately fall for him without fail.
He was wrong.
Akii wanted nothing to do with him and his obnoxious arrogance and instead she tried to avoid him as best as she could. But he persisted, following her around, threatening anyone who expressed interest in her, and always being everywhere she was. This behavior frustrated Akii and she deeply wished that he'd just leave her alone. She would call him a 'stalker' and would always make sure to surround herself with a group of friends to discourage Kousuke and his advances.
After about 2 and a half years of relentlessly pursuing Akii she finally agreed to go out with him, if only to get him off her back. She planned to act outright rude and atrociously disgusting to dissuade him from ever thinking about her again but...something happened during their date and she ended up actually enjoying herself with him! After that their relationship began to flourish, they dated the rest of the time they were at school together and then married shortly after graduation.
They moved away from their home in Japan in 1972 when Kousuke was offered an incredible job over in Ireland, working for the Magical Law Enforcement of the European Wizarding world. They could speak English fluently, though they still had an accent when they did, so they had no trouble with fitting in to English society. Soon after Akii got a job as a Healer at St. Mungos, life was settling down and looking bright for the couple.
In 1977 their first child, Shou, was born while they were vacationing in Osaka, visiting Kousuke's relatives. The two new parents couldn't have been more thrilled with the birth of their first son! Unfortunately it was at a time where Kousuke's job demanded the majority of his time, leaving Akii virtually alone to care for their son. So instead of her staying in their lonely Irish home, she stayed in Osaka with his parents for a few years while her went back to Ireland and worked nonstop to ensure that they'd have enough money in the years to come to happily raise their new family. Every chance he got he would travel to Japan to visit his wife and child, but it never helped to alleviate the pain he felt each time he had to leave and go back to Ireland....
When Shou was 3 his little sister, Kaiya, was born. Since he was so young he didn't really understand why his parents had come home one day with another baby and he wasn't too thrilled to have to fight for their attention--he didn't want to share 'kaasan and 'tousan with anyone, he wanted them all to himself! He would often through temper-tantrums over the smallest things just to take their attention away from Kaiya, he loved when they flocked to him to see what was wrong, which was how he believed that it should have been.
Shortly after Shou's 5th birthday their family reunited again in Ireland, which was a big change for the two young children and ultimately was the reason for their relationship as fighting-siblings to change into a more 'I got your back,' sort of deal. Sure, they were young at the time but as they grew older they became closer and he developed that 'protective older brother' persona.
Shou had always had a short temper and was incredibly impatient. He was exceptionally bright, even in his younger years, and would often become incredibly frustrated when he finished an assignment in class and would have to wait on the rest of the class to finish theirs before the Teacher would move on. From those two traits acting together stemmed his love for starting arguments and fights. Even in his younger years Shou's parents would receive calls from his teachers in elementary school, alerting them to his violent behavior and oftentimes sending him home early for getting into fights during recess with some of the other boys. His parents were extremely disappointed in him for behaving in such a disgraceful manner and they were afraid that his temperamental tendencies would rub off on his sister and she too would start misbehaving. With that thought in mind they began to crack down on Shou, punishing him for his bad behavior. It got to the point where if someone would reprimand him, whether it be his parents or another authority figure, he'd become incredibly angry and upset but he would realize this and try his hardest to calm himself down--usually by furiously running his hands through his hair, or by taking deep breaths, but usually it just ended in him turning around and walking away from the frustrating situation.
He received his letter to Hogwarts when he turned 11, he didn't really know how to react. Shou and Kaiya had always been around magic since they were really little, they knew that their parents were wizards but it never really registered to him that he one day would follow in his parents footsteps by learning how to control the magic within him. Part of him was excited while the other part was more than a little anxious--he wanted to make his parents proud but he knew that sometimes it was difficult for him to control his temper and he didn't want to give his parents anymore reason to be disappointed in him for getting into trouble for his misbehavior.
His very first year was quite possibly his least favorite of them all--his classmates, and even a couple Professors, made the mistake of automatically assuming that since he was asian that he couldn't speak English very well. Ignorance such as that really pissed him off but for once in his life he tried using his intelligence first, instead of his fist, to solve a problem. But towards the middle of the year the stress from the teasing became too much for him to handle and he punched a 1st year Gryffindor in the face, dislocating his jaw, resulting in a very unpleasant Howler to be sent to him during mail time. Shou didn't understand what the big deal was, the kid had been healed by Madam Pomfrey and was doing fine. He was only defending his honor, Shou didn't want other people to look down on him for any reason and figured that he ought to show them that they shouldn't mess with him because he wasn't afraid to fight back.
His first year ended with a few more fights, several detentions, and a couple points being deducted from his House. His second year wasn't quite as eventful, he got into a few fights but nothing too bad.
During his 3rd year he began to take an interest in Quidditch, the only sport that Wizards knew of, it seemed. He was used to playing soccer with the muggle kids in the countryside of Ireland [and on the side streets in Osaka whenever he visited his family during the summer!] and was disappointed to find that not very many wizards really knew of the sport. So While in Rome, do as the romans do!, or however that saying went. Shou began to practice and in his 4th year he made the team as Chaser! It was a way for him to let out all of his frustrations in a healthy manner and if someone got sent to the Hospital Wing? Well, he wouldn't be scolded for it because it was all part of the game!
Once his sister started school he made sure to look out for her, whether she liked it or not, he didn't want her to go through the same teasing that he had when he had first started. But he figured that she probably wouldn't have to deal with much of that since he had made such a name for himself at school that no one in their right minds would even dare to go against him or say anything about his family unless they wanted a black eye.
Over the years he made some decent friends, got into trouble, had a few detentions, and attended his fair share of parties. All in all, the normal life of a teenage boy.
It wasn't until his last year at school that things took a turn for...well, things became bizarre. He was enjoying a pint with his mates in Hogsmeade when he felt as if he had just apparated and when he came to he was still in Hogsmeade but everything was different somehow. Well, that 'different' turned out to be that he and his mates had been transported back in time and were now in the '70s.
Shou isn't quite sure how to react to the new change in scenery, but it bothers him to know that he has nowhere to go for the summer because he technically hasn't even been born yet. He hopes that whatever it is gets figured out and he and the rest of the time travelers get sent back to their time soon.
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AGE: 546
GENDER: Questionable
EXPERIENCE: a millenia.
SECRET WORD: admin edit
ANYTHING ELSE?: Kame is hot and I want his babies.
RP SAMPLE: Look at all my other characters lulz![/SIZE]
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