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Character name: Ohtori Choutarou
Nationality: Half German, Half Japanese
Age: 17
Rank: B-class butler, but barely
Appearance/Personality: Choutarou is tall, very tall for his age. He has short sliver hair that curls just a bit, and neither he nor his parents can figure out where he got it from (Dad's brunette, Mom's got black hair, sister is a brunette as well. Dad thinks his great-grandfather may have had silver hair but he isn't sure). He has very expressive dark brown eyes. When outside of uniform, he is usually found in more casual slacks and shirts, though still dresses fairly nice. He speaks both German and Japanese fluently (growing up, his mother spoke to the children in Japanese, and his father spoke to them in German) and speaks passable English.
Though he has lived in Germany all his life, Choutarou was mostly raised by his Japanese mother, and was strongly influenced by her home culture. He is very polite, and soft-spoken, and it takes quite a lot to make him visibly angry. That being said, he has a stubborn streak, is a firm believer in 'I'm doing this for your own good' and is very difficult to dissuade once he decides he's going to go through with something. Choutarou is far from dumb, and not particularly innocent, but he is very dense. All but the most obvious of flirtations and innuendos will go sailing over his head, though he finds it extremely frustrating when he doesn't know what's going on. Once he does realize it, his default response is to get flustered, not respond. Also, he tends to believe the best of people and their motives - his assumption when help or advice is offered is that the giver is being kind or helpful, not manipulative. However, once tricked, he will be somewhat leery of the trickster, though usually not enough to completely refuse them a second time.
History: Choutarou grew up in a small town in Germany, with his parents and his sister. His mother teaches English at the local schools and his father makes high-quality, though not well known, violins. While they have never been poor, exactly, they usually end up living day-to-day on his mother's paycheck, and whenever his father manages to sell a violin there is a mad scramble to pay off any bills or loans that have accumulated since the last sale. They are not quite comfortable, but they survive. Currently, Choutarou's older sister is at law school, and though she did get a partial scholarship, money has been much tighter with her added school bills.
Because his father spends most of the time in his workshop, or attempting to procure clients, and his mother works at the school all day, the cleaning and laundry and shopping often fell to the children. After his sister left for college and then Law school, it has fallen completely to Choutarou, which means he has been helping with taking care of the family since 7 and been responsible for it since about 14. He is not a particularly adept cook, but he can manage to not burn the house down and come up with good, if simple, food. Since he is usually home and his mother isn't, it also falls to him to make sure his father (who is slightly scatterbrained and often gets caught up in his work) eats, sleeps and generally remembers to take care of himself.
A little over a year ago, as he was walking home from grocery shopping, Choutarou met the man who would end up changing his life. There was a car, broken down by the side of the road, and a Japanese businessman (who spoke fairly good English but no German) and his driver (who was hired only for this trip and thus spoke only German with some understanding of English) standing outside it in the rain looking frustrated. One short, multi-language conversation later and the driver was helping men from the town's auto shop get the car towed and the businessman was sitting at the Ohtori's kitchen table, enjoying a mug of tea.
It was discovered that the car would not be fixed until sometime the next day, so the businessman and his driver ended up staying the night in the Ohtori home, while Choutarou convinced the owners of the auto shop (parents of his mothers students) to make the car a priority and get it fixed as soon as possible.
The following morning, after receiving notice that the car had been fixed and sending his driver to go get it, the businessman made a proposition to the Ohtori family. He was the head of a large corporation back in Japan, and his butler (who had worked for his father before him) was getting on in years and would probably be retiring, or at least releasing some of his duties, in the near future. The businessman proposed that he would hire Choutarou (as he was both incredibly grateful for the help, and more than a little impressed at the boy's skills) and train him to replace his butler. As this was likely the best offer Choutarou would get for a secure future, his parents insisted he take it and, with some reluctance, Choutarou agreed.
He spent the next year learning the ins and outs of his new master's estate, and at the start of the past summer, his master announced that he would be sending him to school for formal training - the same school his current butler had been trained at and where his father had originally hired him. His master told him that if he found a student who was lacking a butler and wished to be hired by them, that was fine, in all likelihood his master would gain a valuable business connection, and if he didn't find anyone, then at the end of his training he would come back to his master's estates and take over for the current butler, as was originally planned.
So, Choutarou packed his clothes and pictures and the violin his father made him, and headed off to Lioncrest Academy to begin his training.
Anything else: Choutarou is just barely a B-class butler because while he has not had much experience as an actual butler he is very good at taking care of people. He is not a morning person, and tends to be rather unresponsive until he gets food, and he doesn't drink coffee because it effects him oddly, though he does know how to make/serve it.
also, Choutarou probably won't be speaking any actual German in the RP, because I don't speak any German and thus would have to rely on Internet translators which would probably butcher whatever he was trying to say. (I don't know why I made him from a country that I don't speak the language of, but it got into my head and stuck so I'm just going to have to deal with it XD)