APPLICATION
Character: Hino Tetsuya
Series: Tumbling
Age: 16
Canon: Azuma Wataru, yankee extraordinaire and student of Karasumori High School is a teenager who strikes fear in the hearts of people. Sadly, gang fights in the street and terrorizing fellow students rarely go hand in hand with good marks, and so in order not to be forced to repeat his second grade, Wataru must pick up a club activity - only, none of them are really his forte. Luckily his adorable girlcrush's interests makes his final decision easy enough: joining the team of male rhythmic sports gymnastics, a small assortment of wimpy guys and the laughingstock of the school. Hopeless though it looks at the beginning, he starts to pursue the supposedly unmanly sport with burning shonen spirit, inspiring other unlikely choice boys to join in. The tumbling team both improves and gains enough members to participate in tournaments - but they have a ways to go.
A constant reminder of that fact is Hino Tetsuya, All-Japan Junior participant from a family of Olympic geniuses. He was the last to properly join the Karasumori team of gymnasts due to prioritizing his individual success over them, but as a series with burning shonen spirits goes, he was jesused by the lot until he integrated himself into the group. Hino is commonsensical, a sober but silent young man who will bluntly state his opinion, be it to be the voice of reason or to drag you back down to earth with the bitter, gospel truth. In fact, he is so used to being an unpleasant guy that he occasionally forgets to be a little nicer to his friends. Some people never grow out of being a dickwad completely. Even so, he is able to relate to another person's troubles and pick up on a mood very well. He especially sympathizes with anyone showing some sort of father complex - having struggled his whole life to prove himself to his own, Hino understands. And shows it, if a little awkwardly.
Sample:
From the look of things, I'll be having my hands full with your team. Although I am not interested in being anyone's Captain, I owe the director a favor, so I am asking you to bear with me as I bear with you. Especially to those among you who do not take men's rhythmic gymnastics seriously - I have no intention of going easy on you. Let me see what you can do, then; training starts now.
You're going to have to try harder than that if you want to convince anyone of your skill. This is not about your purple fur - although it would be a lie to say that everyone can take a yankee seriously doing sports of this kind. Now, to those of you who seem still under the impression that tumbling is a type of body jewelry, listen carefully. You need to point your toes and keep your knees together. Only spread them when I ask you to do so.
It seems that nobody has ever cared to point out your poor posture to you. Slumping over like that does nothing to convey that you are willing to put in an effort and will make you lose important points in any tournament. It has, in fact, lead the judges to believe they were being propositioned before. If you truly think you can afford that, you may go ahead and humiliate yourselves in front of the judges, but do not 'iyan' me for stating the truth. I am bringing a certain degree of ambition into this performance, myself. Do you even understand what it is like to be considered unworthy of the time of someone important?
. . . Ah. The reason you joined this team was your father. I had a feeling that you didn't actually prefer rhythmic gymnastics over another sport, although I am not familiar with such a thing as pumpkin boat derbies. In any case, if those are your feelings, I have no use for you here. If you require assistance with consulting your father, I... will make time to be there. Until then, do not let him preach if you already know you are in trouble deep. Losing sleep will lower your concentration. You'll be taking a break, have some water, and I will see you after training. The rest, reassemble.
VOTING WENT HERE. (46|6, 86,8%)
Series: Tumbling
Age: 16
Canon: Azuma Wataru, yankee extraordinaire and student of Karasumori High School is a teenager who strikes fear in the hearts of people. Sadly, gang fights in the street and terrorizing fellow students rarely go hand in hand with good marks, and so in order not to be forced to repeat his second grade, Wataru must pick up a club activity - only, none of them are really his forte. Luckily his adorable girlcrush's interests makes his final decision easy enough: joining the team of male rhythmic sports gymnastics, a small assortment of wimpy guys and the laughingstock of the school. Hopeless though it looks at the beginning, he starts to pursue the supposedly unmanly sport with burning shonen spirit, inspiring other unlikely choice boys to join in. The tumbling team both improves and gains enough members to participate in tournaments - but they have a ways to go.
A constant reminder of that fact is Hino Tetsuya, All-Japan Junior participant from a family of Olympic geniuses. He was the last to properly join the Karasumori team of gymnasts due to prioritizing his individual success over them, but as a series with burning shonen spirits goes, he was jesused by the lot until he integrated himself into the group. Hino is commonsensical, a sober but silent young man who will bluntly state his opinion, be it to be the voice of reason or to drag you back down to earth with the bitter, gospel truth. In fact, he is so used to being an unpleasant guy that he occasionally forgets to be a little nicer to his friends. Some people never grow out of being a dickwad completely. Even so, he is able to relate to another person's troubles and pick up on a mood very well. He especially sympathizes with anyone showing some sort of father complex - having struggled his whole life to prove himself to his own, Hino understands. And shows it, if a little awkwardly.
Sample:
From the look of things, I'll be having my hands full with your team. Although I am not interested in being anyone's Captain, I owe the director a favor, so I am asking you to bear with me as I bear with you. Especially to those among you who do not take men's rhythmic gymnastics seriously - I have no intention of going easy on you. Let me see what you can do, then; training starts now.
You're going to have to try harder than that if you want to convince anyone of your skill. This is not about your purple fur - although it would be a lie to say that everyone can take a yankee seriously doing sports of this kind. Now, to those of you who seem still under the impression that tumbling is a type of body jewelry, listen carefully. You need to point your toes and keep your knees together. Only spread them when I ask you to do so.
It seems that nobody has ever cared to point out your poor posture to you. Slumping over like that does nothing to convey that you are willing to put in an effort and will make you lose important points in any tournament. It has, in fact, lead the judges to believe they were being propositioned before. If you truly think you can afford that, you may go ahead and humiliate yourselves in front of the judges, but do not 'iyan' me for stating the truth. I am bringing a certain degree of ambition into this performance, myself. Do you even understand what it is like to be considered unworthy of the time of someone important?
. . . Ah. The reason you joined this team was your father. I had a feeling that you didn't actually prefer rhythmic gymnastics over another sport, although I am not familiar with such a thing as pumpkin boat derbies. In any case, if those are your feelings, I have no use for you here. If you require assistance with consulting your father, I... will make time to be there. Until then, do not let him preach if you already know you are in trouble deep. Losing sleep will lower your concentration. You'll be taking a break, have some water, and I will see you after training. The rest, reassemble.
VOTING WENT HERE. (46|6, 86,8%)