Post by Mikazuki Soichiro on Oct 29, 2014 19:33:08 GMT -6
||| MIKAZUKI SOICHIRO |||
face claim ; Atsuhiro Maeda from Tari Tari
#Name; Mikazuki Soichiro
#Age ; 18
#Gender ; Male
#Sexuality ; Heterosexual
#D.O.B. ; May 20th, 1985
#Occupation ; Geometry and Algebra and Precalculus Tutor
#Year and class ; 3-A
#Height ; 172.0 cm/5'7"
#Weight ; 135 lbs
#Physique ; Average; he has lost all of his baby fat but he doesn't work to build muscle. He does run around a lot because he gets lost.
#Hair color and style ; Soichiro has dark brown hair that is combed back but with no gel. It's very casually put together.
#Eye color ; He has normal brown eyes befitting an Asian man.
#Other appearance details (optional) ; Soichiro has a small birthmark on the left of his neck, near his collarbone. He has fair skin and sharp facial features, but a relaxed smile otherwise. He's not the tallest nor the shortest and his average looks make him make up for them with good clothes.
#Clothing styles ; While Soichiro is pretty relaxed, he has excellent taste in fashion brands such as BAPE to mix things up, COMMES des GARÇONS for normal attire (this is the fashion brand he uses the most because it's so widely recognized), and Head Porter Plus for all his traditional needs.
#A more thorough description (optional) ;Overall, Mikazuki stylistically is well-put together with an excellent personal hygiene. Admittedly, his physical looks aren't bad nor exceptionally plain but that's only because he makes up for it with good clothes straight from Harajuku culture. They do say clothes make the man after all. His pajamas aren't anything spectacular to look at either. In spite of being a very self-conscious person, it ironically doesn't show in his casually graceful appearance. It is admirable that a boy like Mikazuki is able to put so much effort and passion into looking great, probably because he absolutely refuses to look like some kind of nobody, being the stubborn boy he is. Equally, however, he doesn't want anyone to know he actually puts effort into looking good for others.
#Personality ;Soichiro is relaxed in nature for the most part. He enjoys soft rock and easygoing music to help pass the time, but has a strong admiration for classical music and soundscapes. Soichiro also has a particular interest in insects, finding them beautiful unlike most other people. On the other hand, he despises spiders and he hates how everyone always lumps such despicable arachnids with such beautiful beings. At home, he has a framed butterfly collection he has had ever since he was a small child. It has been so long since he first got the framed butterflies, but the third year, even in his last year of high school takes very good care of them and the collection has never collected dust ever since. Hopefully, Soichiro will be able to take them with him when he goes to college.
Aside from bug-catching, other hobbies Soichiro has is honing his singing ability and playing the piano. His family was a very musically inclined one and is also very religious. Soichiro is no exception and never fails to visit the temple at New Year's. He has a collection of charms that bring him luck with health and love (which he believe applies to his family relations) and he always prays every day even if the prayer is short and simple. So far, Soichiro has lived a good life and it shows in his optimism and enthusiasm for living life. He hopes to make other people happy with his music as he has done with his family and friends but what makes him upset is his inability to create music. Maybe he just loves patterns or he has no ability to deviate from the norm.
But he doesn't know how to write his own lyrics to his songs. This has saddened Mikazuki very deeply and he constantly is searching for the song-writer he needs. Soichiro may be overly relaxed and optimistic but he is fiercely loyal and affectionate towards his friends. So far he has had no luck with love but he does show some interest in having a relationship so special. He says that it's something not to be treated lightly and takes a lot of commitment, effort and communication and maybe Soichiro just isn't ready yet. First he needs to be friends with a girl before he deems he can have such an intimate and special connection with her -- first most emotionally rather than physically. He can be rather polite but sometimes he has a good sense of humor and crack jokes, even if they're a bit inappropriate at times.
He also has a small interest in studying Math, even though he never was that interested in the past two years of high school. It is thanks to his beloved Precalculus teacher Kurosaki-sensei that he became interested in Math because she made it seem difficult, as it was but not impossible. She said that Math was the basis of all beauty and that anyone could do it if they put enough practice into it. Soon, after doing his homework and checking it thoroughly and doing his best on all of her tests (Kurosaki-sensei did not do quizzes or check homework), he came to love Math and decided to invest his time in helping tutor the other students if they had trouble. Currently, his assistance is very popular in the second-year students. He does, however, tutor first years too, such as Fuukami Haruka and Fujihara Ageha.
As said before, Mikazuki is self-conscious. He knows he is decent-looking but not enough to stand out, making him afraid of looking like a total and complete nobody. Socially, he wasn't too charismatic, but at least he could be fashionable yet lonely. This is why he invests time and money into getting tasteful clothes. He isn't preoccupied enough with his appearance to let it show. In fact, he's embarrassed to admit that dressing well does empower him. He couldn't be caught dead in something overtly gaudy or flashy though.
#History ;For the most of his life, Mikazuki Soichiro's life has been uneventful. He, however, has been made fun of sometimes for having such an unusual name. He thinks it's poetic though and doesn't mind the slight teasing he got in elementary school but as he grew up people didn't really mind. But what he did mind was that not many people wanted to talk to him. To be frank though, he never branched out that often to other people. Regardless, he has made friends with a few people even though he has just barely crossed the line of acquaintances with them. He is in the choir club and has performed for the school festival every year he has been at Hikarizaka.
Born and raised in Hikarizaka, he was born to two young middle-class parents: Mikazuki Hotaka, a defense attorney but amateur guitarist and Mikazuki Katsumi, nee Housen, a homemaker and master cook at day but nurse at night. The three live in a very comfy condominium at the moment, but when he was first born it was a bit complicated because no one expected it. They were afraid he would be born early but he came out right on time, with his hands raised in the air. For a while, as a very young child, Soichiro raised his hands to show that he was happy. And he didn't exactly understand it but he was very happy.
He had a lovely family in spite of him being an only child. His mother had a sister by the name of Shizuka. Shizuka had a daughter then a son. Her daughter Yui is Soichiro's age but her son Hoshino is one year younger than the two of them. Shizuka is happily married to his uncle Sakamoto Akihisa. His two only surviving grandparents: his maternal grandmother Shirona and grandfather Katsuhide always allow their grandchildren to stay with them while their parents are at work. They are peacefully retired and take care of the grandchildren when their daughters and their husbands are too busy to take care of them.
Around their grandparents' house, a duck pond is nearby and there is a beautiful flower garden. The three grew up very close together and to nature and spent a lot of times outdoors. This is where he developed his love for insects. His father gave him the butterfly collection he cherished so much when he was five. Yui and Hoshino spent all of their time at his house because they admired it so much. However, the trio still retained a need for technology and got phones as soon as they entered middle school. Junior high was probably the hardest time of Soichiro's life.
His cousins grew apart as they tried to find their place in the world but he knew that they couldn't forget their roots if they ever wanted to succeed in finding their own identities. Since they were so invested in finding what they were interested in and who they were, Soichiro decided to do the same, and it was then he found out he loved singing when he tried out for the middle school play. He got a supporting role of a pretty prominent side-character and succeeded greatly in all the musical numbers. He was an okay actor but an even better singer. He decided to stick around for all of the musicals just so he could sing and even joined the choir club. Now he hopes to join the high school drama club so he can take part in even more musicals.
Soichiro's first year of high school was pretty fun. He took an easy Biology class and found that he was really interested in it. He has taken more advanced Biology classes ever since or environmental classes to learn about Hikarizaka's carbon footprint and how they could improve their town's relationship with nature. From this class, he found many acquaintances but none he could ever really consider himself close to. He didn't do too well in Classical Japanese or history classes and needed to take extensive amounts of tutoring. There just are some things he couldn't be good at, but he tried and got decent grades thanks to the help of his tutors.
He wasn't even that good at Geometry, but he started getting interested in Algebra II and Trigonometry thanks to his sensei, an exceptionally smart and tenacious lady by the name of Kurosaki Sayu. She always pushed him beyond his comfort zones and encouraged him to do as well as he could in difficult subjects like Classical Japanese and Japanese History as well as Precalculus, now that he was a third-year and about to graduate. Kurosaki-sensei made him study as hard as he could because the college entrance exams were crucial and he had to succeed if he wanted to explore his interests any further. There was nothing more that he and his family wanted than for him to be able to enjoy himself in college while being able to get a job.
Having saved up a college fund from all of the tutoring he had done for the younger students, Soichiro thought he was set for college. But he still contained many fears for the future and wondered if he would finally be able to make a difference in his life and find a bunch of friends that weren't his family that he could really be close to. On the other hand, maybe he should start looking closer. Things weren't bad in Hikarizaka, and he had wonderful classmates. Maybe he could look to them if he needed a friend. Of course, he'd have to act like a friend to them first. Baby steps, though, baby steps. If he pushed too forward, perhaps others would see him as obnoxious.The Roleplayer's Corner
#Nickname ; Atena or Luck-A or Pastaa
#Age ; 16
#Gender ; Female
#Seen the anime/played the visual novel? ; Watched the anime
#How did you find us? ; I got introduced here by my friends, Flame and Miyu
#Sample RP ;Mikazuki Soichiro enjoyed investigating Hikarizaka Private High School's back entrance. Around the premises, he could find many wonderful insects that found it their duty to help pollinate and care for the nearby bushes. Now that it was autumn, Soichiro found the hedges full of bright scarlet berries for birds and bugs to indulge in. Of course, it was far too toxic for any humans to enjoy, not that he would ever desire to taste the clear and sickly sweet smelling sap the berries oozed. Already the hedge was goldening with the colors of fall.
It was time for the plants to wither away and make room for the well-anticipated, cold, but soothing white blanket of snow. But for now, the world had piles of dead leaves, fresh fall harvests, the harvest moon, Halloween and trick-or-treating to look forward to. However, Mikazuki was one of the exceptions. He enjoyed the new species of insects that popped up every autumn and enjoyed researching the black beetles and long-legged flies.
Right now, he was admiring a beautiful long-legged fly that had long thin spindly legs but a gorgeous body that glittered emerald green with flecks of gold. Its translucent fairy wings beat together furiously as it flew away, circling around him as if just now noticing his presence before soaring off into the vibrant autumn sky, cool and crisp without a cloud in sight.
"Wow," the third year said under his breath. "That long-legged fly was so pretty. I hope to run into another soon. These flies work wonders as they help pollinate most outdoor plants. They're always a pleasure to see."