[CHAR] You Are Dead

[Midori]

Name: Yamada Ryota
Alias/es: Sato Hitomi
Age: 22

Height: 153cm (4'11")
Weight: 53kg (115 lbs.)
Complexion: Pale, Asian Pacific
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Auburn
Apparel: Casual blouses, jean shorts, and short skirts mostly, occasionally wears summer dresses in the hotter months.

Personality: Hitomi is not exactly friendly but always very polite. Having been treated as an outcast for most of her childhood led to a fear of conflict and strong personalities. She tends to err on the side of caution and rarely speaks up unless she's spoken to first. Her anti-social behavior is deeply rooted in a past history of abuse and as a result she greatly values the acceptance of others.

History: Sato Hitomi was born as a young boy named Yamada Ryota. Her parents, Yusuke and Akane, were very happy to have had a son but it wasn't long until they realized that their son was different. It started with simple things. Ryota would prefer colors like pink and yellow, sometimes trying to put on girl's clothes. Her parents thought nothing of it at first, believing it to be an oddity or 'just a phase'.

Soon after little Ryota had turned six he started asking to dress like a girl and refused to wear the clothes meant for boys. Little Ryota started to make proclamations that he was in fact a she. Her parents were unable to cope at first and saw fit to punish such brazen behavior with spankings. After all, spare the rod spoil the child, no? Little Ryota only cried louder until her parents finally gave in and allowed their son to dress as their daughter, if only to bring an end to the constant tantrums.

At this point Hitomi was the only name she would answer to. Her father Yusuke reluctantly complied in public but at home things were very different. Her father regularly 'punished' his daughter for being 'impure' and a disappointment while her mother merely watched and did nothing. Hitomi suffered through the abuse at home and was forced to keep her identity a secret. No one could know that Yamada Yusuke's daughter was once his son.

Hitomi was allowed to go to school as a girl although she was not formerly recognized as such by the school itself. The staff chose to play along in order to avoid any awkwardness. Most of the students were unaware of anything out of the ordinary, aside from her mysterious bruises which appeared from time to time. For a while Hitomi lived her life in public without any complications and was actually becoming a rather beautiful young girl despite the constant abuse she suffered at home.

At the age of 14 Hitomi had begun to work part-time at a book store in order to pay for Hormone Replacement Therapy, which allowed her body to develop as a girl. Later in her first year of high school there was an incident that changed her life. A new trend of pranks had been going around where boys would invade the girls bathroom and take pictures of them on the toilet. Hitomi had unfortunately been a victim of such a prank which led to the discovery of her male genetalia and the news spread across the school like wildfire. It wasn't long before the bullying started and soon after that her parents got word of what was happening at school. This only made her father more furious with her and increased the severity of his 'punishments'.

After a few months of being treated like trash at home and at school Hitomi finally decided to drop out of school and was summarily kicked out of her home for doing so. Having no where else to go she pleaded with the book-store owner Sato Hiroshi to take her in and so he did. They lived together until Mr. Sato, who was already well into his seventies at the time, had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Now that Mr. Sato was dying he saw fit to give everything to the only family he had. Hitomi took his name and was granted ownership of the book store "Sato Books". She has since lived her life alone running her book store.

Other:

[Firecracker_]

Name: Takeda Hitoshi Jr.
Alias/es: Tack,
Age: 27

Height:5’9
Weight: 175 pounds, or 79 kilos
Complexion: Standard, Asian Tan, or ‘yellow’ if you will, complexion
Eye Color:Dark brown
Hair Color: Black
Apparel: The coat and such in the above picture, but with the normal black pants and dress shoes. Off duty, he’d wear various colors of t-shirts and many kinds of shorts.

Personality: Takeda can manage to, most of the time, change his personality to suit the situation. Most of the time, Takeda will be quiet and very observative, taking mental notes of certain quirks and quips of the people and places that surround him. He can do a good job handling his temper, and not many things can solicit an emotional response from him. That’s not to say he’s some sort of emotionless robot, but in his line of work, he’s learned to focus more on what needs to be done versus what needs to be felt. Even with all his training, Takeda can sometimes still lose his composure in stressful situations, but it isn’t an extremely common happening. He doesn’t tend to let his guard down around others, and doesn’t get very attached to anyone very easily. He’d rather know people better than they know him. Takeda tries his hardest to be fair and logical most of the time, but he’s still human, even if he doesn’t allow himself to be. When dealing with criminals, on the other had, Takeda has a habit of losing his cool very quickly.

History: Takeda was born in the bustling Tokyo prefecture of Japan. Takeda was a summer baby, born on a beautiful, sunny day in June. His parents were the normal, trope-esque pair of hard working Japanese people, his father a beat cop and his mother a triage nurse. His infancy and childhood could be considered the perfect upbringing for a new, Japanese urbanite: calm and nurturing, with loving parents who wanted nothing more than for their little son to grow up and be the best that he could be.

Even with their busy and unpredictable work hours, Takeda’s parents did their best to always be there for their child, making sure he never felt alone or uncared for in the crazy world. Always full of stories to tell about wacky and scary encounters on the job, Takeda’s father was probably the biggest influence on the young boy’s ambitions, and he decided fairly early that he wanted to help the community and join law enforcement, following in the footsteps of his father.

It wasn’t until his high school years that Takeda’s quaint life received its first huge shake up. Takeda Sr. was on call to a domestic assault call, when in the process of looking for a weapon, he found a large amount of drugs in the house. When he questioned the owner of the house, it quickly got violent, with the two men engaging in a fist fight that ended in Takeda Sr. being stabbed multiple times, and the owner of the house being shot to death by the back-up officers that arrived on scene.

Takeda Jr. found out through his mother, who was the nurse on scene when Sr. made his way into the ER. The injuries were severe, but not life-threatening. Takeda Sr. would spend a few weeks in recovery, before it was found that the man that was killed was an important middle man in a large drug trade linked to cartels in Mexico and the Yakuza there in Japan.

Seeing the hero that was his father stricken so weak and injured at the hands of criminals angered Takeda greatly, and eliminated any doubts he had about joining law enforcement. He wasn’t just going to be a police officer like his father was, he was going to join the Criminal Investigation Bureau and go a step farther to eliminate the drug trade in his area, to keep anyone from facing what his family faced, or worse.

After high school, Takeda headed straight to the university to study Criminology, and as soon as he had his 4 year, Takeda applied for the CIB Academy, and went straight into training for his dream job. The months of hour upon hour of training and drilling were some of the best months in his life, meeting fellow agents that had similar experiences to his, dealing with the negative effects of crime and those who committed it.

Once he finally made it, Takeda went straight to work following leads on the drug trade in the area of his home prefecture and it’s connections to the rest of the world, especially to the United States and Mexico. As the Bureau got deeper and deeper into this dark underworld, it became more and more obvious that they had exposed a drug operation much larger than the likes they had seen in Japan ever before. This case could make history in all of Japan, and he was one of the biggest players in it, even at such an inexperienced state.

He had already made his family proud by going beyond their accomplishments and being a detective in the CIB, so that was the lest of his worries now. The only thing that mattered to him now was dismantling organized crime in Tokyo, and then in Japan. By now he's spent a few years knee deep, and he loves it.

Other: Can’ think of anything.

[Athinar]

Name: Alexandria Graveson
Alias/es: Alex
Age: 23

Height: 5'1"
Weight: 103 lb.
Complexion: Caucasian, yet slightly tanned.
Eye Color: Red contacts, naturally Green.
Hair Color: Red.
Apparel: Usually business casual, but when she arrived in Japan, she started wearing hoodies and jeans as well.

Personality: Alex is brash, loud, and generally opinionated. This doesn't mean that she's not introspective, and does appreciate others' input. She is just too quick to react to think about what she's saying, and feels guilty if she hurts someones' feelings, or makes a situation worse.

History:
Alexandria was born to a single mother in Juneau, Alaska, a young woman, altogether too young to have the responsibility of raising a child. Alex's early years were that of loneliness for hours on end, while her mother was out working. Left alone, without any guidance, Alex was raised by the television screen, watching every program voraciously. One day, Alex's mother brought home a man, deep tan, tousled hair, defined chin, the works.

At first, he seemed nice. He was polite, did most everything around the house himself, didn't ask for anything from Alexandria's mother. However, he hated Alex, and what she represented. After her mother married him, they began to argue. Loudly. One time, the local police department was called in by neighbors, to break up what they suspected to be a fight. However, there wasn't anything out of line, and they couldn't do anything, even if they did feel sympathetic towards the now-teenager, who was alone in the world. Soon after, she was kicked out of the house, at age 17, after a particularly bad fight, with both of her parents this time. As she was shoved out of the house, few belongings tossed out after her into the snow, she saw that neither her mother, nor terrible stepfather had any regrets about abandoning her. So she picked up her things, and left, walking alone down the city streets, at night, no less.

The neighborhood that they lived in was up towards the mountain, so suffice to say, if wasn't the best. On the way to no place in particular, while she was wondering what she would do, she was attacked, man stealing all of her money and belongings, leaving her battered, and lying in the snow. Curled up, Alexandria just waited to die. Everything was complete crap, he life, her family, and now she had literally nothing but the clothes on her back. That was, until Jane, daughter of the sheriff of the city, found her, while walking home from a party, with her group of friends. Taking her to her home, she quickly reached out to the girl who had lost everything, the two becoming the best of friends. Jane's father, mother, and younger brother all accepted her as one of their own, and tried to make up for those lost years of childhood.

For her last year of high school, Alex was happy. Her parents, as she had come to see them, came to hers and Jane's graduation, cheering loudly for their daughters. Jane went onto medical school, becoming the finest doctor in all of Alaska. Alexandria, however, took a wildly different path, instead going to school to become an English teacher in Japan. While Jane wanted to make a difference at home, Alex wanted to travel the world, and make a difference in other's lives. With a teary farewell, Alex left, flying the 14 hours to a country so radically different than her own, she was actually shaking in anticipation, and nervousness. When she landed, she was greeted by a high-school principal, who was the one who had hired her, upon her graduation. Happy, Alex was slightly put off by the student's sheer apathy, but she still strove to be the best teacher they all had, in their neighborhood of Kabukicho. One day, a crazy man found his way into her classroom, waving about a knife. A he was about to stab the first student, Alex pulled the knife towards her, away from her beloved students. Stabbed through the heart, she managed to live for a few seconds, enough to shove the gunman out of a window. Collapsing on the floor, bleeding, she looked upon her students with a smile. They were all safe.

[Kenny1]

Name: Arielle Bellemont

Alias/es: Arie
Age: 26

Height: 5' 8"

Weight: 135 Lbs

Complexion: Alabaster pale

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Brunette

Apparel: As pictured above, except she is wearing full length skinny jeans. She does not believe in luck, but always keeps a pocket emergency kit in her purse and a copy of "The God Delusion"

Personality: Analytical to a fault she overthinks everything, often getting lost in her own thoughts in the process. She really is kind hearted, and wishes people the best, but her serious personality can make her hard to work with. Sarcasm and abstract humor go over her head, and as a result she can take offence where none was meant. Or even worse she tries to be funny but it comes out wrong and offends those around her. As a result she tends to speak more formally than the average person, hoping her words have the appropriate meaning to the person she is talking to. Though she does look down on the religious as "thoughtless" she can still be professional and fully cooperate with them. Most of all though she loves being right and will correct people without invitation.

History: Arielle was born in Osaka to a loving mother and an abusive Evangelical father, both originally from France. At age 2 her mother ran away, taking the young Arielle with her. By age 4 her mother had settled down with a new lover, a woman named Narumi (or as Arielle called her "Mimi"). These women are the only family she ever remembers and for this she is very glad, but knowledge of her father's abuse and repression of her mother gave her a hatred of religion.

A natural student she always got high marks in school and would spend her free time reading all sorts of books. Despite being at best middle class somehow her mothers both ensured that their daughter had all the books she could ever want, which meant her tiny bedroom resembled a library with a small bed in it.

In high school she discovered her two true loves, genetics and debate. Even while keeping up he grades she took part in the debate team, though she never won any awards. Her junior year her name became well known in Japan when she published an open letter to a Catholic Cardinal, and the story took off in the media. The letter was outright blasphemy and accused the Catholic church, point blank, of preventing social progress and hypocrisy, using genetics to attempt to disprove Adam and Eve among other things.

The scathing letter earned her a fair number of haters, but also attracted colleges that wanted a bright mind that was highly motivated. Senior year she accepted an offer from University of Tokyo for a full ride scholarship (in exchange for her majoring in genetics and working for the department for 6 years after graduation). Through college she started accepting invitations to debates with various people, with some even becoming televised affairs. Her love of debate, and being right, kept her on this path and eventually she became a well known speaker for the atheist community.

The past several years since graduation have been rather simple, she works at the university to try and isolate the genes that cause cancer and spends her weekends doing debates with many officials over religion. An abrasive figure to say the least she met her match at a debate in her new home of Tokyo. During a televised debate with a Muslim cleric and extremist from the crowd charged the stage, slit her throat and stabbed her 36 times before security managed to restrain him. She bled to death on live tv, the woman that dared to challenge the world.

Other: She always kept a basic emergency kit in her purse (about the size of two Altoids tins) and pepper spray.

[DJAtomika]

Name: Gokyo Itachi
Alias/es: -
Age: 36

Height: 6'
Weight: 170 lbs
Complexion: Tan
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Dark brown
Apparel: Simple blue tee shirt, brown leather biking jacket, blue jeans and work boots.

Personality: Itachi is outgoing, pleasant and quite friendly, though in new situations he is rather awkward and shy. He is also quite analytical beneath his soft, charming personality, as well as calculated and precise from his years spent working as a crane operator.

History: Itachi is your average American blue-collar worker, holding a steady job as a freight mover in a shipyard in Tokyo. He's the one that operates the huge crane that lifts and moves containers within the freight yard itself. A crane driver, if you will.

Born to a very average family, Itachi took after his father, a rough and tumble maintenance worker, in life and its intricacies. He was what you'd call a simple man with simple dreams: to have a stable job, a family and a house all of his own. Obviously working in the regular blue-collar industry wasn't enough for that, but with the added risk of, say, heavy duty machinery and whatnot, that would be more than enough. Being a modern-day dockworker was just what he needed to live his simple dream life.

Now obviously you didn't need a whole lot of academic qualifications to become a dock worker, but Chris powered through school anyway, getting himself good enough grades each year, and enough to graduate respectably. After that, he took on a life in simple work, helping neighbours move things, taking up part-time jobs in groceries and warehouses as heavy lifters, until his father recommended him to work at the Port of Tokyo. His dad knew the foreman of the freight yard, and since his son was adapted well enough into the simple life, he agreed to take him on. For months Itachi was trained and instructed on the use of the various vehicles and machines within the shipyard; forklifts, heavy duty cranes, how to handle a container on a winch, the whole nine yards. After two years he was easily one of the finest crane operators in the yard.

If you had to ask him what would be the highest point of his life, it would be when he married his wife, Hanao Osaka. They lived together for two years before having their first child, a son by the name of Gin. Three years after that, they had a daughter, Ichi. They moved into a small semi-detached house near the docks; convenience for the father, mostly, but with schools nearby for the kids and work in short order for mum.

Other: Itachi very regularly totes a brown leather messenger bag. Within it is his wallet, cellphone, personal organiser and a pocket knife.

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I'm sorry I can't provide the huge-ass histories that you all have. I kinda wrote this in a hurry and I really wanted to play and flesh out an average joe in a very profound situation.

[ReaptheMusic]

Name: Karime Ochiro

Alias/es: Stage name - Haruka

Age: 21

Height: 5'2

Weight: 121lbs

Complexion: Fair

Eye Color: Teal

Hair Color: Dyed Teal, Natural is black

Apparel: Stage clothing usually consists of beautifully handcrafted halter tops with large, puffy short skirts and handgloves. Wears a headset microphone and knee-high stilleto boots. Day to day she'll wear a similar outfit, with a normal, flouncy skirt and haltertop shirt. She usually wears gorgeous and expensive sunglasses and a sunhat to keep her identity under wraps from fans, and also wears pumps when walking around town. Her favorite accessory is a necklace on a thin chain around her neck, bearing a small round locket with a picture of her baby sister and her.

Personality: While Karime off the stage is very private, shy, and lacking in self confidence, her stage persona, Haruka, is the complete opposite. For the fans and the cameras, Haruka is brimming with self confidence and happiness, always pledging to be fashion forward and reaching for the stars in more ways than one. Karime, on the other hand, is often hard to talk to. She's twitchy, always looking over her shoulder in paranoia and when she feels pressured, breaks down. She shuts down in the face of difficulty or problems, with intense social anxiety that makes her hardly able to function.

History:
Karime Ochiro was born in Kyoto, Japan with the aid of a midwife. Ever since she was little, she loved to sing to herself and found herself too shy to try to show others--until she met Himika. Himika was a neighbor girl that loved picking flowers with Karime and telling stories about how they had traveled all over Japan before coming to move near Karime. Karime spent every moment she could with Himika between classes, studying and chores, which her parents always watched her play fondly with. However, once Karime turned 8, her parents became concerned and confronted Karime about her friendship with Himika. Naturally, in confusion, Karime defended her friend, clueless as to why her parents would suddenly take issue with her being around. The argument became heated, her parents throwing confusing sentences at her like "You're too old for an imaginary friend." and "Himika isn't real, you need to make friends with other children."

A little later, Karime was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Able to receive necessary treatment, she was told to take prescription medication in order to make her hallucinations go away. She was hesitant, and most of all distraught. She told Himika, in tears, that her parents said they couldn't be friends anymore. While the hallucination initially laughed it off, she later became angry when Karime persisted in what she was saying, and then violent. While Karime took her pills as instructed, Himika's persona became distorted, vengeful, telling Karime to kill herself, to hurt her parents and other children... and eventually she disappeared. The attacks left Karime in a depression, and as she advanced into middle school, she became a loner.

One day, having had to stay after class to help clean up the classroom, Karime thought she was alone and began singing along to a soft ballad. However, one of the girls had come back to retrieve a forgotten item and heard her. She applauded when Karime had finished singing, leaving Karime incredibly embarassed, but she was quickly told not to worry about it, and that her singing was amazing. The girl pointed her to Idol auditions in the area and, with much pushing, she nervously went to try out. Shakily, she walked into see the board of directors that she would perform for. With wobbling knees, she belted out the best song she knew, and as she took on an audience, a feeling of confidence bloomed in her chest, causing her showmanship to improve tenfold naturally in front of them. Stunned by her performance, she was immediately signed a contract and began her career as an Idol under the name "Haruka."

After being transformed with a new look, Haruka immediately began travelling all over Japan doing concerts, going onto television shows, reality show segments, guest starring on films, the whole shebang. After years upon years of high stardom, her rise has began to crumble after a recent scandal revealing her relationship with a talent director that had seduced her at a party when she was nineteen years old. She still has very many loyal fans regardless and has manage to make very many other starry-eyed friends. But when the lights go down and the fans go home, she's left alone on stage in the darkness. That depression she felt as a teen never really went away and with the slander coming her way, she started having more mental breakdowns off camera and one on camera that made her lose even more fans, and caused her to escape the spotlight entirely out of her persona for a solid three months now. Then, as Karime, she was trying to go back to her penthouse by using the subway when a group of rough housing boys accidentally pushed her onto the subway tracks. Though she scrambled to get up, it was too late. The subway decapitated her as she let out a choked scream and left her head rolling down the tunnels, the expression of horror still left on her face. In her final moments, she saw a twisted, older version of Himika grinning at her in front of the train.

The Idol Haruka was deemed missing.

Other:
Some of her music that topped Japans charts and some that went international
https://youtu.be/fByFORDcNLA?t=47