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Appearance:


He has long red hair he usually keeps in a ponytail that falls over his right shoulder.

He prefers to wear hoodies and long sleeved shirts with a pair of denim pants in a daily basis, though he might change his attire some for concerts. Lastly, he stands at 1.78 meters and is actually really slim.

Name: Kazama Kazuki

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Birth Date: April 20th

Sexuality: Straight, though he's thought before he wouldn't mind trying something with a man, try and see if it's actually for him.

Major: Audio Engineering (thinking real seriously of changing majors, though. He can't handle the math)

Role: Main Vocalist

Relationships:



Personality: Excitable and quick to rush into things, it is hard to see this Kazuki fellow actually sitting down and waiting for the next big concert about to happen.

He's the kind of guy that, at concerts, crowdsurfs through, well, the crowds, gets to know just about everyone in the concert and may even get into a fight or two. "It's all part of the concert, dude. Either get into it or get over it." he once said as he was being carried in a stretcher out of the concert venue.

He is really hyper, loud and generally annoying with his sarcasm. For some, it is hard to see past that and he doesn't have that many friends (who are 'normal' anyway). Still, he is probably the most loyal motherf*cker you'll ever find yourself stuck with, and yes, stuck with. He can be real clingy once you become his friend.

While he does have a tendency of being uninterested of just about anything, he is pretty serious when it comes to music. He loves all genres and tunes, even the extremely artificial and produced Idol pop. Don't get him going on Babymetal, though.

Quirks: Bites his nails. He started as a kid and can't get rid of the damn habit.

Likes/Dislikes: Music, any genre, even those that sound pretty vulgar. His favorite genre is rock and metal. He has a love for an special kind of spaghetti his mom makes, family recipe./Guys who constantly tell him that 'Slipknot is not true metal' or things like that, even more so when they don't even like the genre. People that mock music in general. Spiders, can't stand those things.

Instrument: A Shure 5575 Red Microphone that he got after begging his father for it.

Talents: Really good at singing, both in English and Japanese. Really well trained ear that helps him discern different tunes in a song. Surprisingly good at sewing, since he added a lot of patches to his clothes as a teenager (he's since grown of such an habit)

Backstory: Ever since he was a kid, Kazuki has wanted to be able to sing at the front of a band. Feel the beats of the guitar to his left the loud drums behind him and the bassline to his right, but it was always the same.

Not in elementary school. The timing just wasn't right. Junior high school? It was filled with losers. High school? They were all too into idol music to care about what he was trying to do.

As he waited for the right time, he trained his voice to become an even better singer. A singer worthy of the band he wanted to start. He's rehearsed his moves for once he got up on the stage. He knows what the name of their first song should be, for the love of God.

It was finally when he was in University in his second year (about to get into his third), that he felt it was the correct time. He printed so many pamphlets that he could've covered the whole school in them, though he decided not to be so extreme (he still put up lots of them) and started announcing his newly founded Music Appreciation Society, the Onshoukai.

People that loved music like him would be eager to join... he just hoped people like that existed in the school.

Of course, he was overjoyed when his first club member came around to sign up.

Name

Atsuko “Atsu” Gekido

Age

18

Gender

Female

Birth Date

JAN. 23^rd, 1997

Sexuality

Pansexual

Major

Criminology

Role

Drummer / Percussion

Instrument

Mapex Armory Series 5-Piece Kit

Personality & Quirks

Atsuko is friendly albeit a bit detached, a fact that resulted from her parents hands off parenting as well as her shy demeanor during childhood. She is fiercely loyal, smart, honest, and creative— traits she has held on throughout her teens. Although she is somewhat introverted she does have some more ‘out there’ personality quirks such as a surprising perverse mindset when she is privy in sharing it (as it is inappropriate in public to act as such); a quirk that translated her interest in perverse doujinshi and anime, a fact she reveals to few people.

Favorite Music includes:

Alice Coltrane
Anthony Braxton
Battles
Bjork
Charles Mingus
Eiko Ishibashi
ESNO
Etsuko Yakushimaru
Gesu no Kiwami Otome
Hiromi Uehara
John Coltrane
Julia Holter
Kahimi Karie
Kanon Wakeshima
Kate Bush
Matryoshka
Midori
Miles Davis
Mutyumu
Nujabes
Ryo Fukui
Shugo Tokumaru
St. Vincent
Sun Ra
Tokyo Jihen
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Tricot
Yoko Kanno

Talents

Atsuko is a talented drummer with styles molded out of jazz and a competent soprano-type singing ability. Outside of music she has decent abilities of perception and deduction which only makes her major at university more understandable. However her practical skills beyond such are limited as she wasn’t particularly well-raised by her parents and relied on a lot of external education from Japan’s school systems or her uncle.

Backstory

Atsuko Gekido is the daughter of an accomplished businessman and a classically-trained artist, both of which having great success in their ventures throughout the years preceding Atsuko’s birth— it was due to this that she grew up with silver spoon firmly planted in her mouth and the expectations that came with such traits. Despite being born into money Atsuko lacked an abundance of friends, and whilst her parents loved their daughter they lacked a lot of time to put into their own relationship let alone their own child; a fact that led to distance between them as Atsuko’s father dove into his work at his consulting firm as well as his stock portfolio whilst Atsuko’s mother dove into her appointments with art vendors and focused into her artistry. This, in part, was why Atsuko’s personality grew into a introverted, reserved, analytical, and quiet way.

However, Atsuko wasn’t completely void of social relationships and ways to cope. The first of all being her connection to music, a happening that happened when she witnessed music for what would be considered her first exposure; especially in a live setting. On a errand alongside her uncle on her father’s side, Eikichi Gekido, in Shimokitazawa she stood in awe at a jazz ensemble’s take in a local establishment and fell in love with the dynamics and flurry of emotion in front of her. It felt sophisticated yet… not wooden like her family and it made her think what it would be like to unleash that kind of emotion that she had from within. Afterwards she found herself extremely curious in jazz music to her parent’s pleasant surprise— though they only placated it as they found the interest beneficial to their “cultural” lifestyle. At age nine she began lessons in music including vocals, piano, and percussion.

As Atsuko grew older she eventually found kinship with others who liked music such as Keiko Nakano and Shinji Koizumi. The former of which she met during her first year in Lower Secondary School and the girl that would become her best friend (and president of her Upper Secondary School’s Music Appreciation Club). Atsuko would even be convinced to join Keiko on an audition for a small upcoming Idol Group called KAI. Surprisingly, Atsuko was picked to join her friend as part of the group; the executives behind the audition telling her that she had a special thing that they were looking for alongside the “powerhouse” of a vocalist that they told her Keiko was. However as Atsuko would soon learn, the Idol Industry was relentless and harsh— and the most demanding thing either would experience in their lives; especially for Atsuko who was more comfortable sitting than the excessive choreography that became a constant in her day to day life.

Before graduation things seemed to take a turn for their worst. Keiko quit KAI in a mess of Idol Group politics, emotions, and complications. Atsuko presumed dirty antics and quit the group following her friend’s departure and while she couldn’t get anything out of her normally extroverted friend she began to draw deductions between the lines. However, a seventeen year old was nowhere near the detective of an experienced investigator and she wasn’t some super genius ripped out of a manga. Her curiosity never faltered and whilst her friendship took a detour it never faded; she refused to let it do so despite the tonal shift in her friend’s personality.

Now at University she finds the appeal of a music appreciation club calling to her… like a familiar nudge. Maybe it’s worth a look?

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Sora Katsurou

TBD

Kazama Kazuki

TBD

Keiko Nakano

Keiko is Atsuko’s best and oldest friend, and their relationship following their “retirement” from Idol Group KAI is still particularly strong despite the change in Keiko’s mood. Atsuko hopes for the day when her sunny and “obliviously optimistic” personality returns but knows that the experiences they went through has burdened her.

Appearance:


Name: Tamaki Kanehara

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Birth Date: September 13th

Sexuality: Bisexual

Major: Electrical Engineering

Role: Composer, occasionally additional keyboardist.

Relationships: (TBD)

Personality: Tamaki is quiet and serious. She doesn’t hate conversation but likes to get to the point promptly. When she’s focused on something she can work intensely and get lost in her own world. She’s relentlessly dedicated to her idea of what good art should be and relentlessly tries new things. Her life is often solitary, and she’s been coping with depression since entering college. She’s doing her best to be more open and friendly to overcome these issues, but the process is not always easy.

Quirks: Hates the number 13, collects umbrellas

Likes/Dislikes: Likes: Experimental music, postmodern and sci-fi literature, rainstorms, tinkering.

Dislikes: Art that retreads what’s been done countless times before, small talk, close mindedness.



Instrument: A messy modular synth that she calls “the squid”, sometimes hooked up to MIDI keyboard or her laptop depending on how she’s controlling it for a given piece.

Talents: Good at repairing and modifying electronics, can also do a bit of computer coding.

Backstory: Tamaki comes from creative household, owing to the fact that both of her parents are visual artists. The trust fund set up by her grandparents ensured that they had trouble earning a living even when their art was not commercially successful. When Tamaki was born, they actively fought to keep her from being “boring” by exposing her to experimental art from an early age. As she got older, it became clear that she was far more interested in music than art. Tamaki particularly loved experimental music because of how diverse it was. She took piano lessons but never liked performing in public or spending time to practice a perfect rendition of piece. Her musical efforts became more focused on composing than performing, and she rarely shared her compositions because most people found them strange and abrasive.

Her parents disliked the traditional public school system, so Tamaki went to a smaller private school. The close-knit nature of the school meant that Tamaki had only a small circle of friends. It was there that she discovered another hobby, tinkering with electronics. She combined this with her passion for music by building and modifying effects pedals. When it came time to go to college, she decided to study electrical engineering, knowing that it would be easier to work as an engineer and make music on the side.

After entering college, Tamaki grew apart from her old friends as they went their separate ways. She spent her first two years in college in relative isolation, which wore on her as time went on. Tamaki’s depression grew worse, and she began seeing a therapist. Following the advice of her therapist, she joined the music appreciation society. So far Tamaki has done her best to fit in, even finding more appreciation for conventional music and writing some more accessible pieces. She still dislikes live performance and doesn’t consider herself a full member of the band for now, preferring to identify as a frequent collaborator.

Name: Minae Umi

Appearance:


-the crown but she does have the flowers around her hair ^^
Her hair is very long as you can see and she only wears it down when she plays the violin. This is due to the fact that it is more comfortable this way.

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Birth Date: December 8th

Sexuality: Pansexual

Major: Computer Science and industrial engeneering

Role: Rhythmic guitarist

Personality:
Umi is very smart, kind, and generous. Her creativity, however, is very low. She is very good at realistic drawings of scenery and such. She loves to read books and learn about things that she never knew about. Most of the time she has a sweet smile plastered onto her face. No, she is not “fake” but she just loves to see others smile and get along. She is used to blending into the background and watching others have fun without her. She always tries to take care of others but never actually takes care of herself. This causes her to forget to think about herself very often. She would much rather be harassed rather than someone around her being the target. Hating someone is not something that she has really done before. Even when she was bullied she always found a way to blame herself for everything that happened.
She is very self-conscious and tries not to bother people. Also negative but tries to hide it from others.
If someone says something like “She’s the type of girl that is weird and quiet”, she will feel extremely uncomfortable since she feels like she has to live up to what others think of her.
Not exactly outgoing but is not that shy (though she will speak in a quiet voice at first). Once she gets used to someone, she will begin to open up and maybe even say “No” once in awhile but not very likely. She will smile more and actually start up more conversations with them as well as inviting them to hang out. You will notice that she acts more childish than at first and will begin to show her true colors, a girl that just wanted to be spoiled once in her life and cared for. She hates to leave people out and tries to include others.
She is very mature. She can do house chores like a mother and is almost always composed at first. You may be able to break this if you hang around her enough since the reason she is so mature is because she never actually got a chance to be spoiled. Because of this, she has almost all of her anger inside of her for more than 6 years.
She has only been angry at someone once in her life and she scared them, which caused her to stop and reflect on her actions. She will get physical if you actually manage to anger her but if you do, it will most likely have something to do with you hurting someone else around her rather than herself.
(Rest in IC)

Quirks/habits:
-She has a habit of biting her lip excessively when nervous
-Cannot stand the number 3. Loves the number 8, however.
-Pulling down her sleeves if she is wearing long sleeves (When shy or nervous but also sometimes just in general).









Classical (Mostly)
Some rock
Since she is an anime fan, she likes to listen to beautiful anime OST's and such

Instrument: Phoenix Hand Carved Electric Guitar By Rigaud Guitars. This is the beauty that she got after she saw her mother's favorite guitarist using it once.

Talents: She is excellent at math. The violin and guitar are something that she is also very good at.
Guitar playing habit: Whenever she plays the guitar she blocks out everything going around her and she ends up in a dark room with her mother. This is a habit that started the first time she played a piece correctly with no mistakes. Her mother is staring at her and telling her to do better over and over. Sometimes tears will fall down but will stop once the performance is over. This habit is something that causes her to be great at the 2 instruments that she does. Her skills on the guitar are beautiful. She loves to do classical music on her violin but is very good at playing rock music on her guitar. She can play about anything as long as you give her a sheet and a deadline to learn it. She can learn a full song in about 4 days.

Favorite guitarist: Kotaro Oshio. He is pretty much the only guitarist she listens to. Her mother was a fan of him as well.
Favorite violinist: Ikuko Kawai.

Backstory: She used to try and get attention from her parents who own a billion dollar company but gave up when her mother continued to say things like “Please. Just be quiet and sit down, OK? Mommy and daddy would always be happy then.” This is when she became used to being the outsider almost always being alone. After that, she always had this idea that it was normal for her not to get caught up in anything.
She was bullied by almost every girl in middle school and had few friends in high school (Most of them used her for money). When her father passed away, her mother worked every day and she became a superb cook because of this. Every night she would cook for hours and often forget about her own meal. Her mother almost always smiled when she ate her food and that made it worth the cuts she got on her fingers at first.
The violin was introduced to her at age 11 when she was walking home from school. She found an old but well cared for violin on the sidewalk and decided to take it home. She began to self-teach herself the violin and began to fall in love. Almost everything that she has ever done was something that she was told to do by her parents, except the violin. She got into the guitar afterward and decided to start it since she heard her mother listening to the guitar once and she looked very happy. Her dream is to put on a performance that well so that she can make her mother smile like that. She does like to play the violin more but the guitar is something that she loves very much as well. She enjoys to play it.
She has chosen to go to this university because of the fact that she saw her mother looking at a pamphlet for it and decided that is was a suitable place for her to be.
NOTES
-A way to make her angry would most likely be saying something bad about her mother. Most people know of her as just a rich lady on the top of the financial food chain.
-Works part time at a convenience store. Loves to work there since interesting people always come in and she has an easier way of talking to people she knows she will most likely never meet again.
-She currently lives in a mansion that her mother left her. She lives alone along with her butlers and maids. The mansion is about 5 stations away from the university and it takes her about 2 hours to get to the university.
-She always carries her violin and guitar with her everywhere just in case she gets the chance to practice the guitar as well as the violin.
-She loves to see "cool" people. She grew up watching all sorts of samurai movies and shows which have made her obsessed.
-Very graceful even when she plays a rock song on the guitar.
-Literally almost everything in her life that she has done has been based somewhat around her mother. (Maybe she will start thinking for herself some more?)
-If you get her drunk she will become more outgoing and happy. She becomes more clingy and will grab just about anyone to make her personal stuffed animal. Also, she may begin to talk about her father happily as well as her mother.
-Plays the violin at home for about 3 hours a day and the rest guitar and studying.
-Her only close friend she had been in elementary so other than that she has only had acquaintances. She never got the chance to go out with friends or dates.

The club has caught her attention now. The sign on the wall is standing out and calling to her. If she could practice hard and have a live concert, maybe it would catch the eye of her mother and maybe it would be... fun. "I think I am going to join".

Theme song:

Mitsuru Karnaukhov





20


Gender-fluid (doesn’t really give a shit about pronouns. He/she/they/ze all fine)


Dec. 1st


Pansexual


Film Studies


Producer (+ various fill-in positions if need be)


Laptop + whatever happens to be at hand (loves working in studio when one is available, uses makeshift bedroom studio when one isn’t)

(gonna keep this one relatively brief so most of it can reveal itself naturally):

-Loves music (duh)
-Generally introverted and quiet until the conversation shifts to something she’s passionate about
-Is very open-minded and has very few solidified opinions on things, but the opinions he does have are solidified as fuck
-Very hard to anger, though if you really want to, bringing up Putin is a good place to start. (probably inherited this one from daddy)
-Phobia of speed. Even being in a car going faster than 60 at the most will leave him silent and shaking.
-Closed-off to those she isn’t really close to. Will appear cold and reserved to most but those who know her know Mitsuro as vibrant and emotional when she’s comfortable appearing that way (very good at concealing it when she isn’t)
-Laughs at things that almost nobody finds funny, and rarely laughs at much else
-Very close to brother, with whom he is in fairly frequent contact via email and whatnot
-Is extremely kind and empathetic towards the few people he is truly close to
-Thinks institutionalized musical education run’s contrary to his philosophies on how music is meant to be appreciated, and so majoring in film studies simply so he doesn’t have to go undeclared (and because he likes watching movies)



Mitsuro has a fantastic ear for music. If he hears a song in his head and he’s with a competent musician, chances are before long the two of them will have worked out something wonderful. Can take a good song and know how to make it better, either to himself or the public at large. Although himself not very good at actually playing instruments, he knows how music works at a gut level, making him very valuable as a producer. Can also play quite a few instruments at fairly basic levels if an extra player or a fill-in is ever needed in the studio if it’s not too tricky a part. Speaks fluent Japanese and English and passable Russian.

Favorite Musicians Include:





When the Berlin Wall fell, Mikhail Karnaukhov was among the first men to find reason to leave, even if only for a moment. Being top in his field as a highly regarded educator of Russian history, (not to mention his wealth of firsthand experience), it was not hard for Mikhail to find some University outside of the newly redefined Russian borders that would gladly pay a healthy sum for him to speak on his research and experiences. Hokkaido University almost immediately showed interest in what Mikhail had to offer, and so within days he left for Japan. Here he met Azumi Ametsushi. Azumi created ceramics from within a studio she owned not far from Mikhail’s hotel. He didn’t know why at first, but something drew his from existing across all the multitudes of cultural newnesses of these streets he had before only seen in books, and directed him towards the window of one small shop in which a collection of seemingly modest pottery was on display. He shuffled through the congestion of pedestrians and began to make his way towards the display, if only to determine just why he felt so compelled to see what was there. There was something at first different, and eventually, incredible, about the ceramics he saw on display. On each pot the folds of the clay contorted and interwove themselves across a subtly blue-toned surface that seemed to consist of either three layers of blue clay waves or a single plane of sparkling azure, depending on how one decided to look. The illusion was that of flowing water, of crashing waves. The ceramics, they seemed positively alive. In rapt fascination Mikhail found himself continually turning his head at various angles just to confirm for himself that the patterns weren’t deceptive projections on his gullible perception, tricks the light would have way to play on one’s eyes to make the merely pleasant appear magnificent. As time came to prove, there was no illusion. Mikhail had already lectured, he had another day to explore Japan before he was scheduled to return home for a brief conference. Perhaps he could forego the conference entirely. He could stay a little longer.

The next 24 hours went by in the kind of lucid haze that rarely find itself experienced in one’s waking life, and at various points Mikhail did wonder if he had simply fallen into the most blissful of subconscious deceptions; he didn’t dwell on such thoughts for too long, as he feared they would wake him, and Azumi herself wanted nothing more than to share this dream with the first individual to see in her art what she felt while guiding it into existence. The first person with whom she had felt truly connected in a very long time.

He decided to stay, if only for awhile. They both inwardly and perhaps foolishly hoped that awhile would last forever.

24 hours later a group of Chechen rebels began staging attacks beyond the outskirts of Gronzy, attacks that were not successfully quelled until every nearby structure capable of collapsing had been made to do so. Among the damaged buildings, and arguably the most terribly irreparable, was the conference hall in which Mikhail was scheduled to be speaking. Mikhail told Azumi he owed her his life. This fact had nothing to do with attacks, he would lean in and whisper, not caring if she was listening, knowing that she understood. He owed her his life, and she asked only that it include her. Mikhail never returned to Russia.

Mitsuru Karnaukhov was born in late 1995, hardly 6 weeks before his parents were scheduled to make a fairly sudden move to the United States. In the years he had lived in Japan, Mikhail had discovered he had an innate and impressive capacity for understanding the inner-workings of capitalism, something he could never have known under Soviet Rule. Azumi proved to have extensive PR skills. Their entrepreneurship it seems had come to take them to the oh-so-cliché “land of opportunity”, where what began as the Karnaukhov’s small local startup was expanding internationally. Azumi may have been the most excited for the move, as a number of modern art journalists in their soon-to-be new home of southern California had expressed great interest in her artwork over the years. Their lives seemed to be pulling them, and the young Mitsuru, to the west.

A year later, Mitsuro’s first and only sibling came into the world; Suzaku was the first of the Karnaukhov-Ametsushi’s to be born in this new home, and as the two brothers grew, it almost seemed like each knew exactly where they had been born. Suzaku acclimated to the world far faster than did Mitsuro, although speaking in short fragments while Mitsuro had begun putting together relatively complex sentences, Suzaku would sprint with excitement to all that drew his interest while Mitsuro was just learning how to stand. Such trends of contrast continued as they grew, solitary Mitsuro and eccentric Suzaku, and although the two were very close, they shared little in common; what they did have in common was they both understood the odd innerworkings of the other’s psyche in the way that only a sibling could, and they both found their greatest joy in life in music, each devouring every sound they could find, sharing every esoteric discovery with each other, and ultimately trying to teach each other how to make their own. Suzaku was a fast learner, and by age 17 could play a variety of instruments with startling proficiency. Mitsuro spoke of music with as much passion (and with far more eleoquence, when he chose) as Suzaku, but could not seem to perform it himself at any level beyond the basic. He could passably play almost any instrument that Suzaku could, but found it impossible to master any of them. He always knew exactly what he wanted the music to sound like, and if he described it to Suzaku he could hear his vision coming into reality, and he was for a moment happy that this was possible and then immediately distraught that it could not come from himself. Although Suzaku was more than happy to perform Mitsuro’s ideas, his inability to do so himself would be a source of great vexation for him for much time to come.

As Mitsuro continued to grow he found himself more and more interested in this idea that while his brother was born an American, he was not. By the time he started American college he had determined that he was just as curious about his own Japanese roots as he was the nature of his own gender. His (and now acceptably her) family was supportive of both endeavors. As Mitsuro’s idea of who they were as a person as far as his personality, interests, sexuality, and gender were concerned, he wanted to understand more about what his heritage meant to him, specifically that on his mother’s side. And so with his parents’ blessing (and money), after two years of American college, he moved on his own to Japan, and enrolled at 20 in [insert university name here] in Tokyo. Mitsuro wanted to know what it meant to be Japanese, but even more than that he wanted to really know what it meant to be Mitsuro. He needed to find something here to latch onto, something that he already knew was an integral part to who he was, before he could begin to understand more. Before long, word of a music club on campus found its way to Mitsuro’s ears…



Suzaku Karnaukhov:
Brother, with whom Mitsuro is closer than anyone. Probably the only one that really gets how Mitsuro thinks. He’s one hell of an eccentric bastard and has been known to perform with his band by slingshotting pebbles into a gong on the other side of the stage.

Mikhail & Azumi Karnaukhov:
His parents. Although not as close as his is to his brother, they still maintain somewhat regular contact, and their relationship is all well and good.

Other People TBD