[Profile]
GOKUDERA HAYATO
Prima donna of the gutter
PERSONALITY
With every step engraving the problems of memories
In short, Gokudera is a stubborn, crass teenager who's easily riled up (lol pun here "he has a short fuse") and extremely loyal. He's hard to warm up to in that he usually attempts to push people away before they ever get the chance to befriend him. Usually this is done by shoving some very caustic words in their face. It takes someone with a strong will to get passed some of the barriers he unconsciously puts in place sometimes. People like the ones who are slowly changing him to be more calm. Though a good portion of the time they're also met with a few good insults sometimes. All but two people, really. The first being Sawada Tsunayoshi, the other being Reborn. He would never be caught dead even so much as thinking ill of either men, as he respects them both fiercely. On more than one occasion, he's risked his life to defend and help the former of the two.
While being an asshole takes up at least a good three quarters of Gokudera's personality, there is also a few good aspects to him besides his loyalty. Like the fact that he is almost kiddishly fascinated with the unknown. Things such as aliens, the Loch Ness Monster (for example) and what he dubs U.M.A. (Unidentified Mysterious Animal). He becomes rather fanboyish about it, to be exact. Awe struck at first, then blushy and wistful. It's rather cute, too. In a somewhat goofy, nerdy way that would be facepalm inducing or borderline on obsessive. What's more is that he will defend whatever hypothesis he comes up with for something outlandish if he's pressed about it, which is usually done with a professor's sort of grace. He will either explain it in-depth if he has to or leave it to someone else to believe of not.
Unfortunately Gokudera also has a few stalker-like qualities as well. But those are solely directed toward "Jyuudaime" (Tsuna) because he is always, always worried about his safety and well being. In a cute puppydog sort of way. Gokudera would be an entirely adorable being if it weren't for the fact that he ruins it with his temper. Silly boy.
Normally he's in a pretty neutral mood all around, it just takes someone to spark his annoyance even just a little bit. However, if something happens to him that he fails (be it a task he's given or the fact that he's not as strong) he becomes an entirely different type of person. While usually the door is at least partially open to people, when he's in 'emo' mode it's completely shut. Gokudera becomes quiet and reserved and seems to lack that usual spark that makes him a ticking time bomb. Usually, he will have to either work this problem out with himself by training of some kind or suddenly realize something through whatever kind of intervention, be it intentionally or not. It's just because he typically takes things a bit too seriously or too far. He's an extremest in one of the worst ways.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
I choose death before dishonor; I'd rather die than live down on my knees. Bury me like a soldier, with my dignity!
One of Gokudera's strengths is that he is highly intelligent. To the point of probably being a genius, really. He's good with school, reads manuals, and forms his own system of studying over knowledge gained by experience. There is a weakness to this, though. As he often takes a 'do it yourself approach' to... well. Just about everything, actually. It means that he will seclude himself in the nearest library and not come out until he's finished. And even when he does, it's usually to test a theory and then go back to the drawing board later. This could lead Gokudera to potentially being one of the best newbie tutors ever... except he would likely rather eat a stick of dynamite first.
Another strength/weakness is that he grew up on the streets of Italy. He knows very well how to take care of himself, be it finding himself shelter and food or a fight. He isn't so weak to be taken down, but he usually does come out of the scuffle with some scrapes and bruises. Unfortunately if the opponent is someone vastly stronger and smarter than himself he's pretty much useless.
Which leads to another strength/weakness. He is absolutely, positively stubborn. To the point of he will do something or die trying. In fact, he usually tends to try too hard and end up hurt. However after someone finally gets it across to him that he is important, he's trying to somewhat subdue that fact and become strong enough that he doesn't have to push himself to the breaking point.
One of his strong weaknesses, though, is that when he's near his sister without her wearing goggles to conceal her eyes... he basically ends up incapacitated. Due to a childhood trauma of her feeding her specialized 'poison cooking' to him, if he see's her without these goggles he suffers a sever attack of psychologically-induced stomach cramps. A shadow of what he felt when he was a kid, no doubt. These cramps are enough to instantly bring him to his knees, and even go so far as to knocking him out.
HAYATO
BOOM!
FULL NAME: Gokudera Hayato
NICKNAMES: Tako head, Ahoudera, Bakadera, Smoking Bomb Hayato / Hurricane Bomb Hayato
TIMELINE: Post-Shimon arc
CURRENT AGE: 15
DATE OF BIRTH: 09/09 | September 9th
PLACE OF BIRTH: Italy
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEXUALITY: Asexual / doesn't give a damn
OCCUPATION: Pokemon Trainer
USEFUL LINKS: Pokemon / Backpack • CR • HMD • Activity
RANDOM FACTS
• Gokudera's starter pokemon has a facepalm worthy name. If you rearrange the letters in "Tsuna" you get "Tanus".
• He used to smoke heavily so he always had something to light his dynamite on. This is something he'll probably end up going back to now that he's in Johto.
• Speaking of dynamite... he knows how to make explosives. :D BOOM!
• Since he was a kid, he's been able to play piano. His mother taught him (though he didn't know she was his mother), and it's a little known fact that he can even play at all. You probably won't catch him ever admitting it or using this skill set where there's a lot of people.
• Gokudera will always put theory over practicality.
• He actually came from a very privileged background, but when he was young (8-10ish?) he ran away from home and never went back.
• To a certain degree, Gokudera cares about his appearance. He's always seen wearing something stylish, and nearly always has jewelry on. Though that part may or may not be for the fact that it hurts more to get punched with something metal covering knuckles.
• He looks good in every color. While we're doing style stuff and all.
• If he wasn't quite visibly a boy, his behavior might lead people to think he was a PMSy woman. Constantly.
• Anyone older than him is almost instantly hated. Even now, when he's getting more tame. He just hates feeling inferior.
OOC
PLAYER: Rin
AIM: sutblewind
PLURK: subtlewind
EMAIL: echo.of.sound [at] gmail [dot] com
TIMEZONE: EST (GMT -4)
AVAILABILITY: Constant - If I'm not on aim, email me. If I don't respond I'm probably busy or sleeping.
This profile layout comes from here.
No idea where the windows photo comes from. I think I found it on zerochan.
Icon maker should be credited in the link for the 100x100 icon.