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PLAYER:
Name: Amy
Personal Journal: ”realityfinale”
Contact Info:
AIM; wrongspork
CHARACTER:
Name: Yamamoto Takeshi.
Source: Katekyo Hitman REBORN manga.
Canon Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Yamamoto AND TO ADD ON, since, wow, sparse wiki article is sparse.
There’s always that on guy in your class who’s always laughing, always smiling, surrounded by other laughing people. You know the type. The popular, easy-going type. Athletic. Good looking. Friendly, so that no one can really dislike him either. But everybody has their down moments, even Yamamoto. Actually, he tried to jump off the roof of Namimori High one time because he broke his arm. No, I’m not joking. This is sort of how he fell in with Tsuna and his crowd. To be honest, Yamamoto could have gone places, could have been a star, but he ends up being roped into what he thinks is a mafia roleplaying game (oh sweet naivety). In the end, this is something that Yamamoto has a knack for as well. It turns out the kid’s a natural born assassin, and well, having fast reflexes and just being good in general helps that.
During the episode involving Mukuro and his little band of delinquents, Yamamoto fights off Joshima Ken with a baseball bat that turns into a katana when swung at over 300km/h (?!?!?!). He scarifies his good arm in order to protect Tsuna, all the while laughing it off and saying it was only a scratch. Later on, Yamamoto becomes the successor to his father’s kendo, the Shigure Souen Ryu (Style of the Blue Swallow, this is important later on) which involves some strange sort of thing where to become successor, you have to be able to memorise all the forms after being shown it only once. Of course, this is no trouble for our all star Yamamoto. But the real reason he learns the kendo is to participate in the fracas for the Vongola rings, where he competed against Superbi Squalo for possession of the rain ring. Yamamoto wins after a series of rather pretty and eye catching panels. Who would’ve thought.
Ten years later, Yamamoto’s still pretty much the same guy. Always calm, unflappable, and smiling. That’s not to say he doesn’t get angry, either, but it’s difficult to pull it off. He’s on a different sort of frequency than everyone else anyways, and expresses anger in his own fashion.
But back to the present! He’s got a typical Japanese lifestyle, going to school, playing sports (baseball), and his father owns a sushi restaurant. Can’t get any more ordinary than that. Aside from the fact that Yamamoto is technically part of the mafia now, and can block bullets with a baseball bat turned katana, though his father gives his kid a kendo blade that turns into (yet another) sword later on. Minor details, after all. Nothing about his mother is known. She’s never mentioned, ever. It’s generally assumed she’s deceased or otherwise occupied.
Nightmare-verse Background: It’s not that different really. Yamamoto still goes to school like he always has, still plays baseball everyday, practices kendo every once in a while. RPGs, are pretty fun, especially the kind with a good plot and cool special effects. Life’s good, life’s normal. He wants to be a baseball star, you know, but he’ll probably end up taking over his old man’s sushi store, haha. That’s okay with him, really. Because things will always work out, so there’s no need to worry. Maybe he’ll be both. Just take it easy and have fun.
He never broke his arm in this world.
Which is a good thing, really, because he’s never met Tsuna, never met the little guy (Reborn), never got involved in any of this mafia business (anyways, without Tsuna there to have saved him, things would’ve gotten messy). But there are other things, there’re always other things. Like when he got hit by a car when he pulled a friend out of the way (friends are important, and so is family), and had to stay in the hospital for a while. That hadn’t been fun, haha, but at least his friend had been okay! And then that other time when someone got pushed off the bridge during one of the live RPG games. Well, it was just a game, right?
His dad? Yeah, Yamamoto loves his dad. After all, he was always there for him, cheering at his mini league games, making special sushi for the parties afterwards. Yamamoto thinks he’s really lucky to have a dad like him.
He doesn’t know his mom, and never asks, because the one time he did, his dad started tearing up, but waved it all off to the onions.
Onions aren’t a main ingredient in sushi, haha, but Yamamoto understands.
Yamamoto’s not great at school, but he gets by. The teachers understand that he’s always practicing baseball, and sometimes he oversleeps because he’s tired. He’s got friends there, and he likes to make even more friends. Really, he’s just an ordinary guy (who likes milk over pop) with a penchant for sports. The easy-going type. The reliable one. The good guy.
You get the picture by now.
Dream Form: A blue swallow. If you’re not thinking that this is completely obvious why this is a first choice for his dream form (come on, Blue Swallow Style?), but instead going, “how in the world would a 177cm teenager translate into a teeny tiny bird”? There is logic to this madness, really.
First off! Blue swallows are getting rare, and while Yamamoto’s like an ordinary guy for most part, his obliviousness to even the most obvious of things is definitely a special kind of breed that’s not easily found.
Yamamoto’s got some damn good reflexes, and athletic ability. Blue swallows are extremely agile aerial birds, good at both catching and avoiding. It’s a trend. It’s not exactly obvious at all who he is in this form, because most people would probably expect something more normal. Maybe some kind of fish? A baseball bat? Anyways, this is a pretty good advantage form over just about any other ground based forms. Plus, the size is a good factor in evading.
Of course, he can peck. There is no bigger threat than a bird pecks besides bird shit.
Class: Sophomore.
Awards and Activities:
BASEBALL. He’ll start up a baseball team for sure. Who knows, he might even try out for the kendo team.
SAMPLES:
Third Person: ’s wet- well, haha, that’s not really unexpected, there’s water everywhere, and it’s only getting higher.
Vaguely, in the back of his mind as he raises another wave of water with the sword in his hand, he wonders how Hibari feels about the school being flooded for the mafia game. But that thought’s just gone as quickly as it arrived because he has no time to be thinking about that, because this is like the moment right after the bat connects with the ball (crack!), and it’s time to run.
Somewhere, also towards the back of his mind, Yamamoto knows the grip of the hilt in his hand shouldn’t be so slick with something other than water; that there’s too much blood and most of it his, but he isn’t worried when he should be, because he’s just won, and there’s that brief rush of heady adrenaline. The ring rests, surprisingly light in the palm of his hand, a symbol of victory but now Yamamoto’s breath catches-
Squalo’s stumbling and Yamamoto lurches forward.
And later on, in this plot of the game, Yamamoto smiles again. Doesn’t mind the bandages wrapped around his ribs, the eye patch over one eye, or the Band-Aids strewn all over his face. It’s just a game, right? Squalo couldn’t really be dead, so he laughs as usual, and wonders why Gokudera’s always in such a bad mood. Maybe it was because cigarettes were mood changers or something? He can’t really remember what the school always said about them, just that they were bad.
Maybe Gokudera should quit smoking. Anyways, now’s not really the time to be thinking about that- there’s another fight coming up, and he’s got to be the ace pitcher, the batter, anything now, to help out.
He’s not sure anymore- not sure if it was worth it.
First Person: This is kind of cool! I don’t think we had anything like this back at my old school. It’s kind of like a huge message board, huh?
Since I don’t really know anyone, I thought this would be a good place to ask, haha. Is anyone interested in starting a baseball team with me?