If you think of another fitting role, be my guest and tell me, even write it in the character sheet. I don't think I'll be adding band roles, though.
Appearance: (Please use anime images for this)
Name:
Age: (Do I have to explain this? 18-22, yep, I've met even older guys at my university)
Gender: (Male, female or Chimera. Pick what suits your character the best)
Birth Date: (When they were born. No year necessary just day/month)
Sexuality: (Cause just hetero dudes and girls would be boring)
Major: (What they are studying in the university)
Role: (No matter what your role is, be original. If you are in the drums, don't be the stereotypical drummer)
Relationships: (These will go in a hider and will, most probably, be constantly updated. You have to put one for every character, even if your character only knows the others because they've heard their names. May be the case, may not be the case, because of the time we'll be starting the RP at)
Personality: (This is more interesting to see unravel in the IC, if you ask me, but if you like fleshing it out like I do, then feel free to do so)
Quirks: (Any important quirk of your character?)
Likes/Dislikes: (I'm plenty sure I don't have to explain this one)
Instrument: (No need to add this if you are not a band member)
Talents: (What your character is good at)
Backstory: (If you want to make it dramatic and tragic, be my guest. You can also make it normal. I dunno. Squeeze your brain and tell me what kind of experiences made your character who he is now. Add what kind of effort your character has put into the band for the past six months too. It will be a deciding factor.)
Appearance:Whee. A little below average height for his age, I guess.
Name: Sora Katsurou
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Birth Date: March 13th
Sexuality: Bisexual
Major: English
Role: Bass. He's actually not a bad singer either, but doesn't feel confident enough about his voice to let anyone else know.
Relationships: TBA?
Personality: Amiable and down to earth, Sora usually prefers to just go with the flow and let life take him wherever it may. He's usually pretty calm, and has a habit of completely underreacting to just about anything; he's not quite stoic, mind you, he just takes things as they come and doesn't see why he should freak out over minor things. Sora is very commited to his music, however, and is kind of a perfectionist when it comes to his own playing; he feels like he'd be letting his musical heroes down if he ever gave a poor performance. Despite sincerely wanting any band he's in to succeed, his two greatest ambitions are a bit less lofty than fame and fortune: firstly, he wants to perfect he bass solo from Orion, and secondly... He wants to raise enough money to buy a Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar, the kind that many of his heroes played.
Quirks: Plays his bass without a pick.
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes: Heavy metal (especially the more progressive subgenres) and western rock music, tokusatsu, mapo tofu.
Dislikes: Idol music (especially the cut-throat internal politics), musicians who don't put their all into their music, clowns (not a phobia, they just remind him of something he'd rather forget).
Talents: Well, he's pretty good at playing bass for one. Whilst he'll admit he isn't the best at writing lyrics, he at least tries and is gradually getting better; he believes that a band needs to write their own music (with the obvious exception of any covers they play) since otherwise their music is less "authentic" and more impersonal in his eyes. Aside from music, Sora is perfectly fluent in English (the only thing really marking him out from a native speaker being his accent) and is actually a pretty decent cook.
Backstory: Sora's life has been pretty average so far, really. He grew up, went to school, excelled in English... His history with music, however, began at an early age. The first music-based memory he has is of his father, an obsessive fan of western rock music, listening to an instrumental track by an American band; specifically, Metallica's Orion. Ever since then, Sora has wanted to master the bass guitar in order to perfectly play Cliff Burton's legendary solo, although even after years of practice he still doesn't believe he's got it down just right. His growing love of rock and metal music led to him joining several bands during high school; an old shame of his is a visual kei band named Glitter Circus due to their utterly ridiculous (even for visual kei) costumes and makeup. As he reached the later years of high school, however, he found he had less and less time for music and had almost given up on it... Until he came across one of Kazuki's flyers, and felt the fiery passion he once had suddenly become reignited...
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:
Current Band Members:
Sora Katsurou: He is happy to have met another person who likes metal and rock as much as he does His talent with the bass just makes it all the better. He appreciates his dedication for music and constantly asks to touch his bass guitar.
Atsuko Gekido: Kazuki is definitely surprised to have an ex-idol join his Music Appreciation Society. Still, her talent with the drums and percussions is undeniable, not to mention that even if it is produced, Kazuki still likes Idol music. He also believes she is cute (though that's a general opinion he has on most girls).
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.
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.
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?
Relationships
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.
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.
Charles Ives Ryoji Ikeda Toru Takemitsu Iannis Xenakis Pauline Oliveros Ryuichi Sakamoto Yasunao Tone Kaija Saariaho Julia Wolfe Steve Reich Oval Autechre Ametsub Merzbow John Zorn Isao Tomita Sun Ra John Cage Bela Bartok Karlheinz Stockhausen Elliot Carter Eric Dolphy Delia Derbyshire Arnold Schoenberg Boredoms Aube
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.
Shizue is an incredibly fun loving girl, she would tell people of very strange trivia in the most random of times. Despite that, she always laughs at the end of it to signal a joke, but besides that, Shizue is a really caring young woman. Shizue would always practice singing in her spare time and find the lyrics to write down on, she would always keep them in her secret diary though, that's the only thing she wants to keep hidden. Shizue can also be very sarcastic and flirty towards everyone in the club, despite that she's only sexually attracted to girls. She would always untie her tie when she's about to flirt with someone and let it hang down, she finds it incredibly amusing to watch, but always stops before everything gets too far.
Once Shizue gets on that stage, her personality becomes slightly more serious as she plays the piano, however, Shizue becomes full of grace as she touched the keys with her fingers. She would close her eyes occasionally, so that she could only focus on the sweet sound of the melody.
"People call me a weird one. But truly, I care about all of those around me."
Quirks
Prone to play piano to represent the current atmosphere, afraid of the dark.
Likes/Dislikes
Likes: Rabbits, Yiruma, Girls (ha get it cause she's gay), Autumn, Mornings, Piano playing. Dislikes: Spiders, nosy people, mean people, people who hate piano.
Shizue has a talent for composing songs, she would always think of the right notes off of her head and try not to stress too much about it, if she doesn't like how it sounds, it doesn't take long for her to try again. As a pianist, she would at least have some skill in regards to playing the piano, she would always play Yiruma's songs, to remind her why she was doing this.
Backstory
Shizue was born into a well-earning family, with her being the youngest of all the siblings in the household. All of her older siblings were taught music at a young age, the majority of them learning classical music, while another was learning rock music to be out of the crowd in the family. Shizue had a decision on what to pick as a music instrument to learn, for a while, she didn't actually know which instrument she wanted to learn, that was until she looked to her TV one day. That day, Shizue's life changed forever, when she saw Yiruma, South Korean pianist, play on the piano with so much grace. Yiruma inspired Shizue to learn Piano, years went bye, and she practiced so many of Yiruma's songs. When she was ten, she decided to participate in a pianist competition to show off her skills, she wanted to be exactly like Yiruma.
Shizue played in the competition, and got first place, which gave her the happiest joy in her life. But then after she received her trophy, she collapsed onto the ground as people watched in horror. Shizue didn't remember anything much that happened afterwards, she woke up in hospital to see her mother besides her, holding Shizue's hand. At a young age, Shizue wouldn't have known on what she was diagnosed with, her family didn't have the guts to tell her. All Shizue was told was to take pills every day, and she did so, the atmosphere of the home was changed from happy to very strange. Even after her trip to the hospital, Shizue pursued her dream of being as inspiring as Yiruma, and influence people to play the piano, since music was what changed her life.
Shizue graduated high school being one of the top 50 students at the school, many music universities were trying to pull her in, but she refused every single time. "It would be boring at a university where there are just the same old people around wouldn't it?" She would say every single time to the music-oriented universities. Eventually she came across one, which seemed to be full of color at the sight, this is what made Shizue smile big like when she was young. She enrolled and got into the school, the music universities were surprised why she didn't go there instead. It didn't take long for Shizue to pick her major, she wanted to be like Yiruma so she chose Composition.
Shizue studied her hardest at the school, and successfully finished one year, but then eventually, she found herself to the Music Appreciation Club. Her adventure started there and then, her attire was always masculine, with a tie or not. It didn't take logn for Shizue to become friends with everyone, this is the reason why she wanted to come to the school, she didn't want to hear the 'My parents told me to go here to pursue music' line. She actually got to meet all of these wonderful people. Shizue would always volunteer to be pianist and back up vocals, she would even do one at a time depending on the song. Shizue can't wait to get out on the stage with her fellow band members, and make them win a competition!
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).
Will add
TBD Her mother: She will occasionally get a phone call from her every month or so and cash set to her home. Sometimes she will get 2-3 calls.
Anime and manga Red is her favorite color also, white Libraries Complimenting Flowers (especially Gardenias) Sweets (Not candy, sweets) Drawing Kind people (and energetic but mostly she just likes to love everyone) Cats (And other animals but especially cats) Of course, the guitar Violin Tennis Writing Reading (Obsessed with reading) Classical literature (Or just a really good book) To make others happy/smile Making money Closed doors Children adorable/cute things or even people Her mother and father
Animal cruelty Herself (Not exactly dislikes as much as has no respect for. She won't be depressing and say things like "I wish I were dead" but she will not mind if she gets hurt helping someone around her)) Compliments (I guess everyone likes them but they make her feel uncomfortable and does not believe them. If it is from her mother, however, she would be ecstatic but that does not happen often.) Someone being alone and looking lonely Doors that are wide open Pressure Being alone (Only when she is stressed or angry since she can't really handle it and may begin to have a panic attack which happens at times at her home.) Having others have expectations for her
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:
Maede Hatsumi "Why are you wasting my time as well as everyone else's? Don't you know that every time you breathe you are wasting some of the Earths precious oxygen?" Personality: Very self-absorbed and loves it when others throw themselves at her. She fully understands how beautiful she is and how many people wants to be her and she will often use this to her advantage. She can be kind if she wants to but that rarely happens and the only person that she actually accepts to be by her side is her daughter. Loves it when the people around her are trying to betray her and think that they have something on her for some reason. She never gets caught doing anything bad and makes sure that people have no idea what is coming at them when she hurts them. Money is something that she worships and is always working to make more. She is an extreme workaholic.
Bio: Raised as a rich child and ended up extremely spoiled. She worked as a hitman for about 3 years (17-20) due to the fact that her father decided to toughen her up. This job did not traumatize her much but she fell in love with her father's saying "You would be lucky to meet a monster in the dark when you are alone. Meeting a human in the dark is much worse. We can be worse than any monster that you ever believed in." At age 28, she fell in love and married another successful man and she began to work harder than ever to make the best company that they could. When her husband died and left her wth her daughter she began to work even more. Going out for social gatherings was a very frequent event and her daughter was left to tend to the house. She expects her daughter to take over the business one day but until then she put her into a college that she found to be suitable for her.
Likes: Manipulating people Herself Vulnerable people Weapons Her daughter Books The guitar Good cooking Money Tennis
Dislikes: Idiots Self-absorbed people Sweets TV Someone wasting her time
"Umi"
Currently- Deceased Cause of death- Murdered but his family thinks that it was a car accident.
Was an extremely kind man and loved Umi very much. His love for Hatsumi was over the charts because of her charm and srprising kind parts. It was hard to get her to love him at first but after 2 years of wooing and sweeping her off her feet, she finally fell.
Gender-fluid (doesn’t really give a shit about pronouns. He/she/they/ze all fine)
Birth Date:
Dec. 1st
Sexuality:
Pansexual
Major:
Film Studies
Role:
Producer (+ various fill-in positions if need be)
Instrument:
Laptop + whatever happens to be at hand (loves working in studio when one is available, uses makeshift bedroom studio when one isn’t)
Personality/Quirks
(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)
Talents:
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:
Albert Ayler Dmitri Shostakovich Igor Stravinsky Galina Ustvolskaya Isao Tomita Keiji Haino Fushitsusha Susumu Yokata DJ Krush DJ Shadow DJ Vadim Wu-Tang Clan Jacks Yellow Magic Orchestra Auktyon Aquarium Leonid Fedorov Alexander Scriabin Christian Zanesi Luc Ferrari Can Miles Davis Edgard Varese Sofia Gubaidulina György Ligeti Harry Partch Tolerance Antipop Consortium Basic Channel Monolake Boards of Canada The Books Digable Planets Freestyle Fellowship Ultramagnetic MCs John Zorn John Coltrane Alice Coltrane Masahiko Satoh Borbetomagus Peter Brötzmann Ryoji Ikeda
BACKSTORY:
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…
Relationships:
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.
