Post by Kenzie on Sept 27, 2014 3:18:36 GMT
Am I more than you bargained for yet, I've been dying to tell you anything
…you want to hear, ‘cause that's just who I am this week
Basics
Name || Takeshi Ogawa
Age || 17
Gender || Male
Sexuality || Heterosexual
Ability || Takeshi can see the past. However his ability is very, very unstable. Takeshi cannot call upon visions of the past on a whim, they come to him whenever they feel like it. And they tend to feel like it on a near 24/7 basis.
The way his ability works is that the past sort of ‘communicates’ with him. If he’s walking down a hallway, for example, the sounds of that very same hall way from about a year ago might suddenly echo in Takeshi’s mind. This gets annoying, and Takeshi can distract himself by putting in headphones, but he’s never unconnected from the past. Takeshi always gets random visions, some are louder and more vivid than others are. Sometimes they get bad enough that he has to lean against a wall and grip his head to try to stop the pain.
When he focuses on a vision and allows it to play out, his headache is much more manageable. If he ever looks like he’s sleeping in class, it’s probably because he’s concentrating on a particularly annoyingly vivid vision that will give him migraines otherwise. But sometimes Takeshi can’t focus on the vision because multiple come to him at a time. Takeshi cannot call upon visions of the past on his own, either, and unless he has a particularly powerful trigger (like touching an object that has a big story behind it, for example) he won’t be able to see exactly what he wants to see in the past. He’s trying to get better at controlling and choosing the visions through the Academy.
Year/Class || Third
Dorm || Nightshade
Job || tba
Health problems || Due to his ability and living in dormitories, Takeshi has trouble sleeping. He needs sleep medication. If he doesn’t have it, he can attempt to sleep with his headphones muffling the sounds his visions plant in his ears, but that never seems to work for very long. As a result he gets very little sleep and that shows in his temper. If he needs to, he’ll take enough sleeping pills to pass out.
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum, I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song (you’re just a line in a song)
Appearance
Height || 5’3”
Body type || Small, thin, but tougher than he looks and can own his own in a fight. He prefers fighting verbally, though.
Hair color and style || Slightly curly and black
Clothing Style || Takeshi usually keeps it simple. Jeans, tee shirts, jackets, in pastel colors. Takeshi is cheap and that definitely reflects in his clothing. He's a thrift store shopper. One thing he will never be caught without, however, is a pair of black in-ear headphones. If they’re not in his ears, they’re in his pocket. If Takeshi finds himself overtaken by particularly loud visions, he’ll put them in to help muffle the sound. Often if he’s being spoken to, Takeshi will either not remove his headphones at all or just pop one out, giving the impression he’s not really listening.
What would this character change about their appearance, if they could? || His height. Takeshi’s not particularly self-conscious about it himself, but he hates the fact people (even his sister) tease him about it a lot. He also feels like if he was taller he might be able to feel as though he was taken more seriously.
Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team
Personality
Likes || Overcast days, rainbows, his headphones, fighting, cooking, chocolate, fruit, salads, eating healthy, his sister
Dislikes || Large crowds, loud noises, tight spaces, thunderstorms, headaches, soda, music with words, living in a dorm, his sister not eating right, ‘you’re Asian, so you must be smart’ thinking about the past, history class (his visions are the worst and most diverse in that class)
Fears || Losing his headphones or sleep medications, Mariko becoming like their mother
Life Goals || To live in a financially stable environment, learn to control (or get rid of) his powers completely, and to be able to support Mariko.
Overall personality || Takeshi is a time bomb about to go off. He’s always annoyed at something. Whether it’s his sister doing something stupid or one of his visions, Takeshi never gets a second alone to just take a deep breath and calm down. Takeshi is very easy to stress out and when he’s stressed out he’s not pleasant to be around at all. Takeshi will snap at anyone that does anything wrong or who gets in his way, whether or not they meant to bump into him or mess up. He’s kind of selfish when it comes to things, but to him, he only sees it as putting himself and his sister before anyone else. Despite that, however, Takeshi will try to help others as long as it doesn’t hurt his sister or himself doing so. He’ll even go out of his way (though he’d probably grumble about it the entire time) to help someone.
As short tempered and mean as he is, Takeshi would simply not be able to live with himself if he let someone down when he knew he could help. He’s not forgiving at all but even if you betrayed him he wouldn’t leave you for dead. Takeshi’s a trustworthy and pretty noble guy, but that’s very hard to tell given how he acts.
Takeshi’s always curt and honest—almost like he doesn’t have the desire to stall things. He always likes to know exactly what he’s dealing with when it comes to people. He doesn’t like liars nor does he particularly like to lie himself. Takeshi’s neither optimistic nor is he pessimistic. He’s a realist.
Short Tempered | Easily Stressed | Brutally Honest | Selfish | Determined | Stubborn | Realistic | Focused | Rude | Hard Worker | Firecracker | Wild | Problem Child | Fighter | Sarcastic | Trustworthy | Unapproachable | Bitter
Fun facts ||
- Takeshi has a soft spot for children and animals.
- Takeshi claims to find his sister ‘insufferable, stupid, and completely annoying’, but he’d take a bullet for her any day.
- He has a little bit of a soft spot for ditzy girls since they resemble his sister, but even that has its limits and he can get annoyed.
- He has a mumbling problem and curses under his breath a lot.
- Takeshi has a soft spot for children and animals.
- Takeshi claims to find his sister ‘insufferable, stupid, and completely annoying’, but he’d take a bullet for her any day.
- He has a little bit of a soft spot for ditzy girls since they resemble his sister, but even that has its limits and he can get annoyed.
- He has a mumbling problem and curses under his breath a lot.
We're going down, down in an earlier round, and Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet, a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it
Family and Background
Mother - Kyouko Ogawa (deceased)
Father - Natsume Kinoshita (who knows? Not Takeshi, that’s for sure.)
Sister - Mariko Ogawa (17)
Father - Natsume Kinoshita (who knows? Not Takeshi, that’s for sure.)
Sister - Mariko Ogawa (17)
Background || Kyouko Ogawa was a sex worker who was taken advantage of by a client who wanted to spend as little money as he possibly could on her. In a stupor due to drugs, Kyouko fell asleep after Natsume had his way with her, and he left without having to pay her any money. That experience was traumatizing for Kyouko but she had no choice but to keep in the business—her landlord—who was also her pimp—would kick her out if she didn’t.
Flash forward to a few months later and she discovered she was pregnant. Kyouko didn’t know who the father was, either, because she’d never even gotten Natsume’s name. And what was worse, she gave birth to twins.
Kyouko, despite everything, genuinely cared for her two children. It was hard for her to afford to keep them, but for her whole life Kyouko had always gotten the short end of the stick. And even worse, Takeshi was always sobbing and crying and no matter what Kyouko did he would not shut up. The neighbors in her shabby apartment always knocked on her door to complain, thus waking up Mariko. But Kyouko always tried to do the best she could for her children.
Kyouko didn’t live for very long. She died when the twins were 12. Kyouko had absolutely no family except for her children. So the two orphans were reduced to living on the streets without much sympathy from their former landlords or Kyouko’s former clients and coworkers. Though Mariko was extended an invitation to stick around, she refused to be separated from Takeshi. And Takeshi was a pain in the landlords ass as it was and he was happy to be rid of the kid, so he refused and the twins were on their own.
Takeshi had always had his ability, he just never quite knew what it was. He had nightmares about the places he lived in, except the people in the nightmares were the people who lived there earlier. Like him, his sister had odd dreams, but unlike her brother she said they were cheerful and happy. The older Takeshi got the darker the dreams got, and eventually the subject was his mother talking to creepy men and their old landlord. Eventually the nightmares got so bad Takeshi would wake up grabbing his head and screaming, causing huge scenes in the alleyways the children slept in. His sister was always the one to calm him down after that with her stupid yet unwavering optimism and warm hugs.
Takeshi’s sister, worried for her brothers well-being, convinced him to find some kind of therapist to talk to. He didn’t want to, but she insisted she found someone free, and dragged Takeshi to meet someone. This someone was obviously underpaid and didn’t look like he particularly cared about the well-being of Takeshi or Mariko. But Takeshi told him what was up—the weird dreams and nightmares. Initially the therapist tried to pin the nightmares on someone named Freud and the Oedipus complex, but the more Takeshi talked the more suspicious the therapist got about the nature of these dreams. Takeshi started telling him it wasn’t only dreams too, and it was sometimes just random memories he didn’t have flashing across his mind.
Pairing that with what Mariko always said, about predicting the future and her dreams about things happening that always, inevitably, happened.
Of course, this therapist was well acquainted with the Academy. He brought these two children’s existence up to them, and got them an interview to determine whether or not they actually had gifts.
The interview proved to be successful in determining what they had. Initially they were reluctant to accept this, but when the academy offered them a secure place to stay and a steady income of food, Mariko forced her brother to agree to stay. Initially Takeshi wanted to leave, but the faculty promised him that they’d learn to control his powers.
…plus he wasn’t about to leave his sister with strange people. Takeshi was protective of her—she was his only family after all—and didn’t want to be separated from her.
They joined the school when they were about 14 years old, and have been attending ever since. Takeshi got himself a job on campus whenever he was old enough so that he could earn some money to spend, but he absolutely hates people so working is excruciatingly hard for him.
Take aim at myself, take back what you said
Take aim at myself, down, down in an earlier round
Relationships
Significant Other || none
Friends || His sister Mariko
Rivals/Enemies || Probably plenty
Roommate || Joseph Grimes
Other || He’s kind of known for both his height and having a nasty temper. He’s kind of unapproachable that way, and is only kept in line by his sister. Only pay attention to this if you want your character(s) to vaguely have an idea of him.
Lyrics: Sugar, We’re Going Down Swinging – Fall Out Boy