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[ Player Name ] : Aster
[ Personal LJ ] : firemirage
[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : Pacific
[ Other Characters ] : slyhandmonk, suzakubandit
[ Character's Name ] : Yusuke Urameshi
[ Character's Age ] : 15
[ Series ] : Yu Yu Hakusho
[ Canon Point ] : Ep63 - "Yusuke's Despair" - After Kuwabara's death when his power awakens.
[ History ] :
Yusuke started off as a typical middle school delinquent at the start of the series. He carries an apathetic attitude about life, not caring to attend class, or graduate middle school for that matter. A prankster of sorts that's always getting into street fights with kids from his school and neighboring ones. He's considered the strongest fighter around and everyone fears him for who he is except for Keiko. A childhood friend of his.
His first show of development is when he pushes a kid away from a speeding car. While the kid did survive (and would have regardless) Yusuke died in the process. It took a lot for Yusuke to be revived which ultimately relied on a close friend or family kissing him on the lips with the desire to bring him back. Namely Keiko.
Yusuke and Kuwabara are given a mission by Koenma to collect special items. In doing so they meet three demons. Two of which make a return later after their début. Least to say Yusuke had won these battles and some respect amongst his current comrades.
Koenma dubs Yusuke as a spirit detective with his newly awaken powers as sort of pay back for reviving him. It was then when Yusuke was referred to Genkai where he could receive special training to become stronger. With Kuwabara, the two advanced and entered a competition to see who was worth enough to train with Genkai. Toward the end Kuwabara lost and Yusuke was forced to draw power to save Kuwabara from certain death, thus earning him a win and several months of training.
A new trouble emerged around this time. Four beast gods took it upon themselves to stir up trouble. It was then when Keiko's life was in danger, and one the four beast gods specifically targeted her. Kurama and Hiei ally with Yusuke and Kuwabara on a mission to defeat these gods and restore order to the world once more. It wasn't until the last god, Suzaku, that Yusuke finally fights. In doing this, he is faced with Keiko's possible demise before he's pushed over the edge and annihilate Suzaku completely in order to save her life.
Order was restored and things were peaceful enough until Koenma presents Yusuke with another mission. This time to save a woman from a rich man and his henchman. Yukina. Kuwabara insist on coming along even thought he doesn't have to. The two boys and Botan head for the mansion in the attempt to save Yukina. In this they had to defeat low-class demons and some stronger ones. It wasn't until Toguro that he and Kuwabara actually had real trouble. It was Toguro that enlightened them of how weak they really were. It was by some miracle that the two heroes won the fight, and saved Yukina. Some days later while Yusuke was out and about, he encountered Toguro a second time. The first time he saw him only 20% of his power was displayed. Toguro then demonstrates 60% of his power and threatens Yusuke to join the Dark Tournaments or everyone he cares for will be killed.
Yusuke and his friends train for two months until the tournaments begin. On their boat ride their, only time team could survive. That was Team Urameshi's. Yusuke brings a mysterious fifth member needed in order to compete which leaves some of the team skeptical. It was around this time, that Yusuke passes out from all his hard training to only awaken when he was next to fight. That being his battle against Chu, the leader Team Rikkuyukai who specializes in drunken-style fighting. Inevitably, Yusuke is deemed the winner and his team moves on. They are given a day of rest before their next fight.
Team Urameshi's next opponents are Dr. Ichigaki Team, a crazy doctor with experiments for fighters. Kurama and Hiei are left distracted leaving Kuwabara and Yusuke to fight on their own against the team. Kuwabara, being naturally sensitive figures out that the men are beginning controlled against their will and asks Yusuke not to kill them. The two become corner and the mysterious masked fighter is forced to take a hit for Yusuke. The masked fighter is revealed to be a young women with pink hair. The girl then eventually frees the men of their imprisonment forcing the doctor to fight for himself. A battle which Yusuke is cornered into fighting. He of course wins, and their team moves on. They immediately move to the next round in a back-to-back fight with no resting period.
Team Masho becomes their next opponents. They are cloaked with hidden identities. With most of the team rendered useless, they are forced to fight to the brink of their extent to win each fight. Kurama is then falls unconscious and loses the fight. The next fight being Jin vs. Yusuke. Though admittedly their fight isn't as serious as Jin only seems to fight for fun. After their battle Kuwabara is up next and he doesn't appear to win. It wasn't until Yukina, his crush, shows up that he gathers enough strength and determination to take his foe down and win the fight. Their team wins and they move on, and they are provided with a break. The girl mentions what a fool Yusuke is and claims that she can do better. She lures him to a cave while the others recover where she reveals her true identity as Genkai.
Genkai draws out an orb from her body. Saying that is her time to pass on her teachings to her Yusuke, but with a catch. If Yusuke's body cannot accept this power, it will likely kill him before he accepts. He is then given the orb which his bodies absorbs where he endures unbearable amounts of pain. Mean while the rest of his team does their own business. That being fighting the next round. Without Yusuke and the masked fighter, the rest of the team is forced to continue the tournament without them. Hiei and Kurama being the first two to go in their own battles. Kuwabara is next to fight, where his opponent is actually cheating, however. The host sees nothing wrong with this and Kuwabara is forced to continue on with the way things are. He wins. Genkai returns and it is her turn to fight. Genkai wins the fight against Suzuka and is victorious. It was around this time Yusuke recovers from the orb and is born with a new-found power. Team Urameshi claiming a spot in the finals.
Yusuke returns during the battle of Genkai and Toguro in which he sees Genkai killed by the hands over her old friend. This enrages Yusuke and he becomes bent that none of his friends will fall victim to his enemies again. His adrenaline does not last long before he grieves over his teacher's death along with the rest of his friends.
Team Urameshi finally faces against Team Toguro and the first to go is Kurama vs. Karasu. Kurama's only hope of victory falls dependent on him drawing his full-fledge demon half. Kurama succeeds and Karasu becomes overwhelmed, after a few complications Kurama stands victorious. Next Hiei faces Bui. Hiei is quick to summon the dragon of darkness which proves useless against Bui. Hiei claims victory of the battle in Bui's defeat. Kuwabara is last to learn of Genkai's death at this time before his fight with Toguro's older brother. He becomes enraged about this. Not to mention all attempts to defeat Elder Toguro are in vain. Elder Toguro eventually loses. Next is Yusuke's battle against Younger Toguro. The time for revenge begins now. Even with the power inherited from Genkai, Yusuke is still too weak to defeat the demon. Toguro unleashes all 100% of his power and Yusuke's chances of winning seem to dwindle. Yusuke removes his spirit cuffs, a potentially different attempt to wind, but all attempts still aren't enough. Toguro still holds a seeming victory in this match.
Toguro is determined to draw out all of Yusuke's powers, and in doing so a friend would have to be sacrificed. It was when Genkai possessed Buu that she relays to Toguro that it would have to happen. This pisses Yusuke off, but Genkai counteracts that this was the harsh reality he would have to accept if he isn't strong enough to keep what he wants. Thus, Kuwabara is targeted and killed awakening Yusuke's full potential.
This link goes more depth about his history.
[ Personality ] :
Yusuke is a punk, to put it blatantly. At first he really didn't have any interest about anything. As the series progresses Yusuke starts to grow more compassion and more caring. While he does still throw around his apathetic, rude behavior, he can still respect and appreciate others. At first you would think Yusuke doesn't care about his friends. The way he treats them and picks on them would make you think he just bullies them, when in reality, that's just his way of caring. He never had a father figure to look up to, and his mother didn't seemingly care about him. She was always wasted and always careless, and he thought she didn't care about him. That's why he didn't care about others. It was only after his death he realized how many people thought something of him aside from being a street punk. This was quite possibly the first push in his personality development. So you could say the way he was raised lead him to affectionate the way he does.
With that being said, Yusuke will go out of his way to protect and save his friends. They seem to hold a special place. You could say they make his very character, because they are the ones who taught him he could care for people other than himself. There have been many demonstrations throughout the series where Yusuke grows insecure when he thinks his friend's lives are in danger. He will promptly save them and take down the enemy that posed the thread to begin with. However, due to the rough nature Yusuke got himself into. He's not always unable to save his friends. When one does pass away he will mourn for them (sometimes even violently) while beating himself up for not being strong enough. This is when his compassion is colorfully revealed.
He's probably best known for his sense of humor. Yusuke is quite the prankster, and a joker to go with. Regardless of how dire and serious the situation is, he still finds room to crack a joke. Sometimes its a way to lighten the situation, or sometimes it's because he does find the situation to be humorous enough to comment on. For example, when the situation wasn't serious involving a pitiful demon, Yusuke commented: "What are the chances of a demon being a total wuss?" and "There's no way I can deflect both of those with my Spirit Gun. Spirit Grenade Launcher maybe, but definitely not a gun." One of his more serious situations jokes would be: "I'm sorry. When I kill people, I'm used to them staying dead." to Toguro when Yusuke was under the impression that he had killed him.
Along with his humor is his crude nature. You could say Yusuke doesn't have a very good filter. He speaks his mind with whatever comes to mind. Has quite the dirty mouth. One of his more crude show of nature would be when he commented "What are you waiting for? Your balls to drop?" Something not many people would say. Especially someone his age. Yusuke is the kind of guy that will tell it like it is and joke about it if need be. Even if he's on the receiving and losing end.
Yusuke hates authority equally. He hates it general, Yusuke was never really good at listening to what older or more status oriented people tell him to do. Yusuke is rebellious, and does whatever he pleases whenever he pleases. It's hard to convince him otherwise, but sometimes he'll comply. Like for example, when he won the competition to be trained under Genkai. As much as he hated following under her and her harsh training, he still followed-through to become stronger. Hell in the end he end up respecting her even if he didn't like how she did things.
He's not very bright and acts on impulse. Yusuke never participates in school and even skips detention. He's on the fence of failing middle school and doesn't try very hard to succeed - Pretty much a drop out and not all too bright. Yusuke even shamelessly admitted that he scored a 12 on his test. Out of 100, mind you. Academics are probably one of his weakest suits. Sometimes his ignorance applies in battle, and most of his victories turn out to be a stroke of luck when he didn't have anything planned to save his sorry hide. Kurama notably pointed this out when he was under the impression Yusuke intentionally bailed himself out of trouble but found out it was only luck.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths:
For starters, Yusuke is rather athletic. He can endure long-winded exertions with his body and has well toned muscles. His physic is possibly one of his best features too. Not only is he athletic, but as the series progresses Yusuke grows stronger and stronger. At first a simple car accident was enough to kill him, but due to his growth in strength, now even being hurled through walls does nothing but keep him down for a few minutes - seconds even. He has a lot of endurance and very high resistance to most things. This makes him pretty dependable in battle assuming his enemy isn't stronger than him.
Yusuke is both a long-distance fighter, and a close combat fighter. Most of his skills come from that of street fighting in his early days, and he was even considered the most feared guy around. His skills are undeniable. Later on, he learned to manipulate and hone his spiritual power. Eventually Yusuke adopted the spirit gun. Giving him the edge in battle to shoot from afar.
Being a spirit detective, Yusuke is prone to spiritual abilities. The more he trains with them, the stronger he becomes, and the more abilities he develops. To name a few. One is the spirit gun. It's self-explanatory. He simply aims his index finger, collects ball of energy at the tip of his finger and releases it as a shot. It's his trademark attack and his most used one.
Next is the spirit shot gun, similar to his original, first learned move. The vital difference is rather than using a finger alone, his whole fist is the weapon. A larger collection of energy is drawn out and released into countless miniature shot gun attacks. It's excellent for hitting more than one target or thoroughly attacking a single target. This technique can also be used as a rapid-fire and shoot one after another (as opposed to just one alone or all at once.)
Lastly, his spirit wave. Rather than launching his spirit energy outside of his body as an attack of its own. It's builds around his body. It amplifies his attacks and makes him powerful in close-combat. However, since this technique demands him to exert his energy at once, it becomes hard for him to control and even becomes a liability.
Like Kuwabara, but not as keen, Yusuke is able to see the supernatural most humans can't. Ghosts, demons, or spirits that aren't visible to the human eye can still be seen by him. This spiritual awareness also allows him to pick up spirit (or demonic) energy from others.
Yusuke, while not always optimistic, does have a good sense of humor. He doesn't fall easily to despair and vigorously tries to his best in everything he does (except for school of course.) Determination is easily noticed when fighting or competing. Sometimes he'll go to any length to see he is victorious. Not just that, but he is caring too. His ability to form bonds with others have led him to get quite a following. Yusuke, crude as he is, has more allies and acquaintances than he can probably count. He is revered for both his stupidity, and his compassion.
Weaknesses:
Yusuke may be able to take unimaginable amounts of damage and still survive, but he isn't immune to dying. If he is the weaker of the two, someone could very likely render him useless and kill him. This is experienced countless times throughout the series when he just isn't strong enough. Nevertheless, it shows that like everything else, he is capable of dying. Yusuke has technically already died once before, and who's to say it wont happen again?
Truth be told, Yusuke's spirit energy is channeled with his life energy. This concludes that he doesn't have an unlimited bank of energy that he can continuously draw from. If he uses too much too soon, Yusuke is left empty and vulnerable during battle. Even if he doesn't use it all at once, he's able to run out no matter how much he reserves it. Without his spirit energy he is forced to rely on mere strength alone which doesn't always give him the advantage in battle.
Additionally, if he exhausts his energy entirely, he's prone to dying. Spirit energy does come from the spirit after all, and if there isn't any left than he cannot live. Careless exertion of energy can lead to death. There was a case in point when Yusuke used all his energy to defeat Suzaku in one fatal blow and risked dying. Kuwabara simply couldn't cope with it and decided on a whim to transfer some of his own energy into Yusuke if only to keep him alive. This resulted into Kuwabara falling unconscious due to lack of energy. (Meaning Yusuke is also vulnerable of falling victim to this.) Knowing this, he doesn't carelessly throw around his energy, and actually avoids attacking with his spirit energy unless he has to.
Yusuke isn't at all bright. In fact he's quite the dimwit and has earned that title rightfully. Even his comrades see him as an idiot (not nearly as much as Kuwabara sometimes.) Seldom does Yusuke rely on strategy in battle. Most of his attacks are on impulse and most of his victories are won by luck. His lack of intellect leaves him vulnerable to those who put a little more thought into the situation. Luckily it's not so severe that he always loses, but it does draw out battles longer than they have to be. In short, if he were smarter, he would avoid casualties more often.
[ Other Important Facts ] :
- Yusuke is actually of demon descent, Raizen, but it is not yet awakened.
- Yusuke's tough guy act is mostly just a shell. He actually cares for others.
- He's quite the lecher, a very bold one.
- Nothing can wake him up when he's in deep sleep. (Almost comatose, but this only occurs after extensive training or long, hard battles.)
- His sense of humor is most of his personality.
[ Sample ] :
First person sample.
"Heh, great. Some other bastard wants a piece of me now." The reckless teen took his first few steps before glancing around. His current setting was drastically different from his last one, and there was even a strange sprite buzzing around him all annoying like. His large brown hues followed it cautiously before his attention immediately darted behind him. His vision extended all the around him and then above. "I though fish tanks were suppose to hold fish." Why the hell was he surrounded by marine life? Yusuke advanced toward the barrier, eying it suspiciously as he pressed his finger against it. The pressure of his strength hardly phased it. There wasn't a threat to his person either, but it still raised alarms. "I guess this must be holding the water back."
Yusuke clutched his fist and flexed his arm. Now that it occurred to him, he felt weaker than he remembered. Some smart ass demon must have been behind this. How else would he end up in the middle of an ocean? "All right, punk. If you got a bone to pick with me, nows your chance! I ain't got all day to play around!" This was him challenging without knowing the full extent of his situation. Given his history with trouble though, this scenario is very possible for him.
He waited, and waited and still nothing happened. Yusuke became aggravated at this development and gritted his teeth. "Okay. Don't come out then. I'll figure out a way myself!" He didn't need help. Maybe his friends were here. Yusuke couldn't really sense them nearby, which meant he had to look around the good old fashion way.
The teen wandered around for a good hour or two before he ended up somewhere in the middle of he city. He had to admit, there was a lot of things he's never seen before all in one area. Demons even, but none that posed a threat to him personally. "Looks like I'll have to make a change in plans." He grumbled bitterly. His friends weren't here and certainly no one that looks like they could have been behind this. If destroying the barrier wasn't such a catastrophic idea, he would have done so by now to get out. There was a unusual looking coral in the distant. Something about it raised uncertain feelings. "I don't know what's going on, but I don't like it." Yusuke walked over to the coral. He inspected the species for a good few minutes before determining it was safe enough to get close to. The gap between the two close and he tapped it curiously. Upon touching it he felt strangely rejuvenated and much chipper than he did when he first came here. "I get it. This coral or whatever the hell it is must have something to do with it!" Coming from him, that was an astounding deduction seeing as he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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