Character Sheet
Name: Chikao Ono
Age: 15
Appearance:
Personality: Chikao is really self-confident, to the point it can be called arrogance. He doesn’t really care about right or wrong and his conscience rarely troubles him. Chikao acts like he doesn’t care about school at all but he actually really loves chemistry, even though he thinks that the chemistry of school is for idiots. He keeps this interest in secret and fails chemistry on purpose. It’s not rare for Chikao to get obsessed in something, whether it’s being cool guy, chemistry or a new mobile phone game. Some of his obsessions last longer than others, though. Chikao is pretty impatient, except when he is stealing something or making an experiment. Waiting is a terrible ordeal for him.
Background: Chikao is the only child. He has always admired his father. While his mother has always been quite strict to her son, the father was always cheerful. He is chemist and when Chikao was smaller he used to show him all sorts of chemical reactions. The boy was fascinated by all those things and developed a strong interest in chemistry even before the school age.
Chikao had a huge crush on a girl in his neighbourhood. The girl was two years older than he and was already in school. She used to tell him about his days in school. She told about her friends and how they were cool and wanted company, but also about a girl who she hated. According to her, that girl was a stupid nerd who only loved books, school and being better than everyone else. Chikao realized that in the book of her crush it wasn’t cool or even acceptable to like chemistry. Instead you had to be self-confident and you shouldn’t care about anything. He kept his interest in chemistry absolute secret, even from his father and started to act like a “cool guy”. In the beginning his father still kept showing him reactions and teaching about chemicals, but when he stubbornly insisted that he didn’t care, the father gave up.
When Chikao started the school, he saw that many people really were gathered around him by his self-confidence. He liked it and started to make fun of those who didn’t think that his ego was cool, just like his crush had done to other people. The crush thought that Chikao was cool, even though she never answered his feelings because he was too young.
Chikao still loved chemistry and was secretly into it. However, it started to be boring to always use merely water, salt, sugar, Diet coke and Mentos (and he was also disappointed because drinking a whole bottle of Coca and swallowing Mentos as whole didn’t make his stomach erupt). He wanted to use stronger and more dangerous chemicals. He got an idea to steal them from the lab of his school, and that’s what he did.
Chikao’s first theft was highly successful, no one even noticed that something was missing even though he stole a Bunsen burner. He started to do more professional experiments and steal even more and more equipment, but always only so little at once that no one noticed something was missing. In the beginning he only stole from school either during the school day or sneaking there at night. Soon he grew tired in the merely school equipment, though, and started to steal from his father’s workplace and from other companies. He became quite a successful burglar, never being noticed and always stealing so little that no one noticed something was missing.
In the school Chikao continued to be a self-confident popular kid who didn’t care about the school. He intentionally made hilarious mistakes in chemistry exams while silently wondering if the exams were made for idiots and how someone couldn’t actually get the best grade from them. Every now and then he answered the whole exam correctly to annoy the teacher who was sure that Chikao had cheated but, no matter what, he was never able to catch the boy doing it.
When Chikao came to be a teenager he started to have constant fights with his parents. They scolded him about not doing well in school, being disrespectful towards them, causing trouble in school and so on. Chikao started to avoid his parents like a normal teenager. He started to create a secret laboratory into middle the forest with glass panels and other things he stole so he would need to be home as little as possible and he could do a bit more bigger experiments.
Secret: Chikao steals chemicals from the laboratory of his school, the workplace of his father and other places and does secret experiments with them, even though he acts like he couldn’t care less about chemistry. He is talented in both burglary and chemistry. There are different chemical equations and ways to sneak into school and other places written by pencil on his page.