Post by Akechi Tatsuya on Mar 23, 2021 3:41:37 GMT -4
Akechi Tatsuya
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero Alias: Black Dog
Player Name: Teddie
Faceclaim/Series: Okada Izo / Fate Grand/Order
Age: 15 (born April 16th)
Gender: Male
Affiliation: UA Student
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Hair/Style: Long, scruffy black hair tied up in an old school ponytail.
Skin/Scars: Fair skin, unblemished except for a long scar across his chest.
Eyes: Pale yellow, sharp and untrusting with a hint of cruelty.
Notables: Uses an antique katana in battle when permitted by UA staff. Otherwise, fights with a bokken.
Player Name: Teddie
Faceclaim/Series: Okada Izo / Fate Grand/Order
Age: 15 (born April 16th)
Gender: Male
Affiliation: UA Student
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Hair/Style: Long, scruffy black hair tied up in an old school ponytail.
Skin/Scars: Fair skin, unblemished except for a long scar across his chest.
Eyes: Pale yellow, sharp and untrusting with a hint of cruelty.
Notables: Uses an antique katana in battle when permitted by UA staff. Otherwise, fights with a bokken.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Tatsuya is a youth of Japanese descent. His height and weight are both slightly above average for a Japanese boy of his age. Throughout middle school, he favored a delinquent look, complete with an old school cap and an unbuttoned school jacket. This persists into his career in UA. He wears the standard outfit, but finds wearing it properly to be too stuffy. He takes a surprising amount of pride in his scruffy style. Besides his cap, he has no other accessories except for a phone strap with several cute charms evoking anime characters from the mid 2050’s. Anyone who points out how much this contrasts with his bad boy image gets soundly yelled at and threatened. The strap is the only memento he has of his mother, it being the phone strap she used throughout high school.
His hero costume, per the initial design request he sent in to UA, evokes the ronin of Edo period Japan. It consists of long, dark, flowing Japanese robes and an orange scarf that can be pulled up to cover much of his face. Sometimes, but not always, he still wears the hat while in his hero uniform. While under the supervision of teachers, or in other authorized situations, he utilizes the sword passed down in his family since the Sengoku Jidai.
POSITIVE
✔ Loyal, Free-Spirited, Tenacious, Courageous
NEGATIVE
✖ Irritable, Neurotic, Violent, Rude
LIKES
✔ Steaks, Action games, Samurai flicks, Baseball, Singing
DISLIKES
✖ Enka, Singing in front of a crowd, Spineless people, Rats
Personality:
Most people’s first impression of Tatsuya is that he’s a delinquent. They’re not necessarily wrong, but a lot of his outward anger comes from a place of deep pain. He guards his heart from others, even though he’s a social creature by nature. Insults are par for the course with him, if he feels they’re warranted. It’s safe to say he’s a problem student, but by no means is he irredeemable, or even a bad person.
People often notice that he’s twitchy, too. He talks fast and shows signs of mild ADHD. Someone who knew him when he was in early elementary school would be floored by just how different he is as a teenager. This is thanks in no small part to Redline, his quirk. It turned a normal boy into an adrenaline junkie whose worst enemy was the blood coursing through his body. He likes to fight, pursue cheap thrills, and do anything else he can think of that will get Redline coursing through his bloodstream.
Despite all of that, he does, indeed, have a heroic heart. Many of his fights have been in defense of those weaker than himself. He can, has, and likely will continue to defend those who can’t defend themselves. He’s the first one to volunteer to do anything dangerous and the last person to suggest backing off, even if that would be the smart thing to do.
Tatsuya is a youth of Japanese descent. His height and weight are both slightly above average for a Japanese boy of his age. Throughout middle school, he favored a delinquent look, complete with an old school cap and an unbuttoned school jacket. This persists into his career in UA. He wears the standard outfit, but finds wearing it properly to be too stuffy. He takes a surprising amount of pride in his scruffy style. Besides his cap, he has no other accessories except for a phone strap with several cute charms evoking anime characters from the mid 2050’s. Anyone who points out how much this contrasts with his bad boy image gets soundly yelled at and threatened. The strap is the only memento he has of his mother, it being the phone strap she used throughout high school.
His hero costume, per the initial design request he sent in to UA, evokes the ronin of Edo period Japan. It consists of long, dark, flowing Japanese robes and an orange scarf that can be pulled up to cover much of his face. Sometimes, but not always, he still wears the hat while in his hero uniform. While under the supervision of teachers, or in other authorized situations, he utilizes the sword passed down in his family since the Sengoku Jidai.
POSITIVE
✔ Loyal, Free-Spirited, Tenacious, Courageous
NEGATIVE
✖ Irritable, Neurotic, Violent, Rude
LIKES
✔ Steaks, Action games, Samurai flicks, Baseball, Singing
DISLIKES
✖ Enka, Singing in front of a crowd, Spineless people, Rats
Personality:
Most people’s first impression of Tatsuya is that he’s a delinquent. They’re not necessarily wrong, but a lot of his outward anger comes from a place of deep pain. He guards his heart from others, even though he’s a social creature by nature. Insults are par for the course with him, if he feels they’re warranted. It’s safe to say he’s a problem student, but by no means is he irredeemable, or even a bad person.
People often notice that he’s twitchy, too. He talks fast and shows signs of mild ADHD. Someone who knew him when he was in early elementary school would be floored by just how different he is as a teenager. This is thanks in no small part to Redline, his quirk. It turned a normal boy into an adrenaline junkie whose worst enemy was the blood coursing through his body. He likes to fight, pursue cheap thrills, and do anything else he can think of that will get Redline coursing through his bloodstream.
Despite all of that, he does, indeed, have a heroic heart. Many of his fights have been in defense of those weaker than himself. He can, has, and likely will continue to defend those who can’t defend themselves. He’s the first one to volunteer to do anything dangerous and the last person to suggest backing off, even if that would be the smart thing to do.
HISTORY
Tatsuya was born into an old, respected family that traces its lineage back to a cadet branch of the Akechi clan. His father took great pride in their heritage. His job was running a dojo in the area, which he expected Tatsuya to one day take over. As such, in addition to traditional schooling, Tatsuya was trained in the art of swordplay. After school every day, he’d come home and be expected to train. His father was relentless in his training. At times, it would get bad enough for a senior disciple to step in and suggest a gentler touch would be better for someone as young as Tatsuya.
His father heartily disagreed. So, Tatsuya would go to bed with fresh bruises and a growing chip on his shoulder. The only comfort he had was his mother, who read to him at night and sang songs for him. Her love was what kept him going through the years of bruises and calloused hands. She was also the sole reason Tatsuya was allowed to join a baseball team. It was the first real break from swordsmanship he’d ever gotten to take. He fell in love with the sport at once. Studying players became an obsession of Tatsuya’s.
His life changed drastically around his eleventh birthday. Spring was just around the corner, and some of his classmates were bullying a boy in his class. Annoyed of them picking on someone so much younger and defenseless than themselves, he fought them. The adrenaline rush he felt during that fight was like nothing he had ever felt before. It was like walking on clouds, like seeing the color in the world for the first time. He beat the pulp out of those kids until he ran out of energy. They found him with bloody fists and a maniacal smile on his face.
Some of his father’s disciples thought that he’d just snapped, despite Tatsuya’s mother’s best efforts. His mother, on the other hand, knew it was strange and took him to a doctor. After an extensive battery of tests, it was discovered that he had a quirk. His adrenal glands were larger than normal and the chemicals they released were abnormal, to say the least. Further tests led to his quirk being dubbed “Redline”. He was warned that it would be best for him to stay calm and stay out of fights.
He tried. Honestly, he did. His father was the problem. Being a traditional, conservative member of the Japanese public, he had a hardline anti-quirk stance. His own son having a quirk was a source of great shame for him. He took that out on Tatsuya’s mother. The first time Tatsuya saw this, redline flooded his system and he got into what might diplomatically be termed an altercation with his father. His father, while an accomplished martial artist, was wholly unprepared for his redline crazed son and a baseball bat to the back.
The whole thing was quietly brushed under the rug. Tatsuya and his mother went to live with her parents in Tokyo. They tried to put the incident behind them, but the damage to Tatsuya was done. Between his mother’s rapidly declining health after the incident and the euphoria of redline, he started getting into a lot of fights. What saved him from outright expulsion was the circumstances of many of these fights, where he took it upon himself to fight on behalf of someone being bullied by their classmates.
Right before Tatsuya’s graduation from middle school, his mother passed away. He had the chance to hold her hand as she went gently into the night. She told Tatsuya that he had the heart of a hero, and that he should put it to good use at UA. He promised her he would try and attend the school. After her funeral, he signed up to take the UA entrance exams and managed to pass. With spring fresh on the horizon, he hopes to honor his mother’s dying wish.
His father heartily disagreed. So, Tatsuya would go to bed with fresh bruises and a growing chip on his shoulder. The only comfort he had was his mother, who read to him at night and sang songs for him. Her love was what kept him going through the years of bruises and calloused hands. She was also the sole reason Tatsuya was allowed to join a baseball team. It was the first real break from swordsmanship he’d ever gotten to take. He fell in love with the sport at once. Studying players became an obsession of Tatsuya’s.
His life changed drastically around his eleventh birthday. Spring was just around the corner, and some of his classmates were bullying a boy in his class. Annoyed of them picking on someone so much younger and defenseless than themselves, he fought them. The adrenaline rush he felt during that fight was like nothing he had ever felt before. It was like walking on clouds, like seeing the color in the world for the first time. He beat the pulp out of those kids until he ran out of energy. They found him with bloody fists and a maniacal smile on his face.
Some of his father’s disciples thought that he’d just snapped, despite Tatsuya’s mother’s best efforts. His mother, on the other hand, knew it was strange and took him to a doctor. After an extensive battery of tests, it was discovered that he had a quirk. His adrenal glands were larger than normal and the chemicals they released were abnormal, to say the least. Further tests led to his quirk being dubbed “Redline”. He was warned that it would be best for him to stay calm and stay out of fights.
He tried. Honestly, he did. His father was the problem. Being a traditional, conservative member of the Japanese public, he had a hardline anti-quirk stance. His own son having a quirk was a source of great shame for him. He took that out on Tatsuya’s mother. The first time Tatsuya saw this, redline flooded his system and he got into what might diplomatically be termed an altercation with his father. His father, while an accomplished martial artist, was wholly unprepared for his redline crazed son and a baseball bat to the back.
The whole thing was quietly brushed under the rug. Tatsuya and his mother went to live with her parents in Tokyo. They tried to put the incident behind them, but the damage to Tatsuya was done. Between his mother’s rapidly declining health after the incident and the euphoria of redline, he started getting into a lot of fights. What saved him from outright expulsion was the circumstances of many of these fights, where he took it upon himself to fight on behalf of someone being bullied by their classmates.
Right before Tatsuya’s graduation from middle school, his mother passed away. He had the chance to hold her hand as she went gently into the night. She told Tatsuya that he had the heart of a hero, and that he should put it to good use at UA. He promised her he would try and attend the school. After her funeral, he signed up to take the UA entrance exams and managed to pass. With spring fresh on the horizon, he hopes to honor his mother’s dying wish.
