Tall at over six feet tall, wiry enough in build...face, from under his eye to his upper jaw, are made up of prosthetics. Application of latex, make up, and a few more things onto the bone grafts and upper jaw piece make up his face. There are a few small scars on the back of his hands...old defensive wound scars. Scared of having his non-face exposed, and not having something perfectly handy...Junpei actual grew his hair out in anticipation of such an event, a temporary curtain to shield him away from others, if it comes to that. His 'face' may be considered attractive by some, but it has nary any other expression other than indifference, due to lack of actual muscles...most find the indifference intimidating. His left eye is half blind, and has difficulty focusing on certain features...so, something he squints hard to get his left eye to at least work a little with his right...but sometimes people misinterpret the look as some form of death glare.
Name:Junpei Yamauchi
Age:17
Grade (1st/2nd/3rd year):2nd Year
Disability:Half-Blind in One Eye
More than 75% of his Face is Expensive Prosthetics
Personality:Simply put, Junpei is terribly shy…he’s actually quite afraid of being rejected, ‘cause he knows how well that went last time. Terrified of having people see him without his face on, he also has the obvious trust issues, and for a time he had been tutored in martial arts as a form of self-defence. Otherwise, people who get to know him well enough will see that he is actually quite an empathetic, selfless youth.
Background:Some people get a new mother, some people get evil step mothers…life, am I right? His father was a retired guitarist who remarried when Junpei was aged four, unfortunately, his step mother was highly possessive and didn’t want anyone getting in the way of her love. And so, borrowing a hammer from a neighbour with the intention to ‘fix a problem’, his step-mother tried to kill him at age five. She only managed to smash the boy’s face into a pulp before his father entered into the scene and stopped her.
Junpei survived, by his face didn’t…they managed to save his eyes, one of which became half-blinded, but the section of bones, the entirety of his nose and cheeks, upper jaw…all of it was completely destroyed, and at the time, there was no great option for his face. For ten years after that, he had been home tutored in sign language since speaking without an upper jaw was hard for others to understand, his face covered by a custom mask. Afraid of being harmed by others again, Junpei also learned as many forms of self-defence as he could.
Throughout this, the boy was very lonely…even with the constant help of his father, and the tutors going in and out of the household…Junpei was very lonely. And so, after some research, the faceless boy decided to settle for some new facial prosthetics…his father paid for having the expensive bone grafts added into the boy’s face, and then paid for the equally expensive custom prosthesis to be made. Bone grafts, custom prosthetics (upper jaw, latex coverings), and more expensive make up products…and Junpei finally had a face again after ten whole years.
Due to feeling insecure about his lack of speaking skills, his father even hired a tutor to teach him for a year, along with a make-up artist to teach him about properly applying realistic makeup…but with having a new face came the elevation of insecurity of the times he didn’t have it on in front of people, all the way to his panic attacks here or there. But eventually, at age sixteen, he finally attended his first year at Yamaku. Though he may not have made many friends that year, he really enjoyed the experience.
Other Info:Always carries a large make up and prosthetics case with him.
Has panic attacks every once in a while, but usually only when someone sees him without his prosthetics on.
Knows sign language like the back of his hand.
Due to extensive facial prosthetics, he is unable to make facial expression…which makes him seem intimidating to others.
Master in a number of martial arts.
Sits out for a number of classes due to the possibility of ruining his make-up.
Can’t eat solid foods, since they can possibly dislodge his faux upper jaw…which he’d have to rush out of the room to adjust, which would lead to a number of other things needing to be fixed as well.
Father has quite a bit of money from his successful music career.
