Name: Youta Hayashi
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Title: IV
Appearance: Basically as seen above, only slightly more matured physically
Personality:
Youta is carefree ordinarily. However, his younger sister Misheru (Pronounced almost like Michelle) has recently been hospitalized and so his thoughts are heavy as of late. Typically he is a hard working student who enjoys his free time to himself mostly. He does have a few friends in his classmates, however. Youta tends to over exert himself, putting too much thought into otherwise trivial details. Because of this he tends to pass out while doing homework, and usually ends up handing in some assignments late. As far as hobbies goes, Youta is very passionate about sound design and music in general. His favorite genre is metal, and because he loves it so much he taught himself how to play the drums from his middle-school days so he can emulate his favorite musicians. On the side, Youta also enjoys the occasional video game (mostly hand-held games on PSP and Nintendo DS Lite).
History:
Youta born to newly wed Yuuko Hayashi (born in Japan) and Kevin Rowland (born in the U.S.) in Sakurami City, along with his younger sister Misheru. As they got older, his parents left them alone for extended periods of time due to their line of work; his mother frequently had round-the-clock shifts as a surgical assistant at Sakurami Hospital and his father made frequent business trips to America as a translator for a large firm at their overseas conferences. As such, the responsibility of taking care of Misheru was mostly in Youta's hands.
Still, he and his sister managed just fine without their presence. When his father returned from his trips to America his mother would take the week off to be with him and the family before he left again, and they were a happy family. That changed after his sister was hi by a hit-and-run driver about a year ago. Since then she has been laying in a hospital bed with paralysis from the waist down. Her condition only improved slightly at first, but since then she's been bed-ridden. Youta worries about her all the time, and visits her whenever possible. If he could had the power to save her life, he would anything to obtain it so long as Misheru can live a happy life.
Occupation: Student at the University of Sakurami City, 3rd year
Diary
Diary Name: Sampler Diary
Diary Appearance: The diary consists of Youta's iPhone, with a special microphone attached to it that can record sound clips.
Diary Ability: The Sampler Diary is a diary that Youta keeps of the various environmental sounds he samples throughout the day for use in his songwriting. These sounds can be anything he hears or within the mic's recording range including animals, conversations, background noise, etc. The file names for each of the clips are named after what Youta believes the source of the sound was, along with a note with any other relevant details.
+Informs Youta of events that he can hear in his vicinity, regardless of what it is. For example, a sample might be the noise of another diary holder chasing him, or it might be the sound of another diary holder dying by gunshot (telling Youta that he succeeded in killing them), etc.
+Can simply be Youta making a voice note to himself, so that as much detail is explained as possible.
-Has limited recording range and a time limit.
-Can't predict what he can't hear; if someone sneaks up on him without making any sound then that won't show up in his diary, or if something happens too far away to hear, etc.
There may be other applications and drawbacks to the diary that may come up, I just can't think of them at the moment. I hope this is enough to get started at least.