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Tatara Totsuka | K | Reserved

[larvayne]

Player
Name: Tale
Personal Journal: larvayne
E-mail: einmyrias@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: ringsofroses
Timezone: GMT+8
Current Characters in Route: fervour

Character
Name: Tatara Totsuka
Series: K
Timeline: December 7th, pre-death. On the day of but before his murder as shown in multiple flashbacks. Note: Totsuka's death is shown in the first episode, so I don't consider his death a spoiler!
Canon Resource Links: Wikia!

Personality:

Never usually without a warm smile or a kind word, Totsuka's easygoing and happy-go-lucky nature gives him an enthusiasm that is just so cheerful and contagious that he's been labelled the moodmaker within his group of comrades. Plenty playful, he's been known to prank even the most moodiest of people and also gently troll his friends. In fact, he gets along so swimmingly well with people, strangers and acquaintances both, that it's his duty to welcome and take care of any and all new members while making them feel at home.

It's a gift, you see, he's really good at reading people -- from little things like who's keeping secrets to how well or how badly he'd get along with someone within the first few minutes of meeting and speaking with them. Excellent at reading moods and experienced in diffusing the anxious and difficult ones, he very easily turns and deflects the attention of other people with his charming smile and carefree nature. Even so, he's very aware of where personal boundaries lie and never crosses a line without reason. That said, he's wonderful at fitting in with people by adjusting his attitude and his words so much that his juniors sometimes forget that Totsuka really is older than they are.

No matter the situation or place, he is always optimistic and ready to say those words: "It's okay, it's okay, everything will work out somehow!" He truly believes in that, even all the way back when he was a kid abandoned by his parents, even when his foster mother left his gambling addict of a foster father, even when his foster father's gambling addict left the two of them often without electricity or water ... even when he's badly beaten up and sent to the hospital by thugs just because they thought him connected to someone they hated.

However, there are still plenty times when he comes across as either air-headed, irresponsible or lacking of self-preservation skills.

Pop quiz: When it's obvious somebody is trying to kill you, what should you do?

If you're a certain Totsuka Tatara, you choose (e) make plans to meet up in an isolated location just to speak with them alone.

...Above example aside, he is actually a intelligent and level-headed person! No, really. See, he knew his would-be assassin didn't actually want to kill him; his would-be assassin is also later recruited into their ranks. Tying in with his skill of reading people, you can say Totsuka never does anything without purpose or reason even if it sometimes appears otherwise. Rarely losing his calm serenity and his smile, for all his capriciousness and whims when it comes to his multiple, ever-changing hobbies and passions, Totsuka is a person that everyone can depend on.

Yet, despite his seemingly gentle nature, Totsuka can be ruthless and manipulative should the situation require him to be. When asked to civilly interrogate a guard, he threatens the man with burning multiple holes on that man's body and keeping him alive for as long as required until the information they required is obtained. Of course he complains afterwards about being given the difficult tasks; it's to be expected -- he's not really a fighter at all, but only if the word fighter is used here in its most physical of meanings. Mentally, emotionally, he's as stubborn as they come and never gives up easily.

And while negative emotions such as anger and jealousy don't actually seem to exist inside his dictionary, he is capable of feeling dejection, doubt and guilt but reveals them to the people closest to him only on the rarest of occasions. He's also been called cold-hearted more than once; he didn't cry when his parents abandoned him and didn't cry when his foster father died. In a manner of speaking, he is rather cold-hearted. What an ever-changing interest in absolutely everything and anything means is an indifference in losing everything; flitting from passion to passion, hobby to hobby, there was never a single thing that that Totsuka clung to or felt sad to leave behind because there was always something new taking its place. At least, that's how it was until the day he meets a certain Suoh Mikoto, decides he'd become his vassal and actually sticks to it for a record at eight years since.

Generally a good person if short of a few screws, Totsuka means well and very easily endears himself to people from all walks of life. Amongst his comrades, Totsuka is the heart of the group, willingly giving himself to ensure and support the well-being of everyone important to him.

Strengths/Weaknesses:

+ Insightful & perceptive
+ Intelligent
+ Passionate about his passions
+ Calm and serene even under pressure
+ Survival knowledge (he climbed mountains as a hobby)
+ Knowledgeable in general

+/- Strong-willed/Stubborn

- Reckless and irresponsible
- Cold-hearted at times
- Whimsical
- Physically weak
- A little self-sacrificing

Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Breeder
Starter: Charmander
Password: Scrambled Eggs

Samples
First Person Sample:

[ the voice that comes from this feed is remarkably calm and cheerful for one who has suddenly found themselves in another world: ] Testing, one, two, three... Good morning, Pokémon World! My name is Tatara Totsuka and well, I'm a new arrival here, just like everyone in New Bark Town is.

I have some questions and I'm hoping a kind soul or two will answer them for me-- [ and then he pauses, like an epiphany has just struck him ] -- ah, I know! Let's make this more interesting! If you could just pass one piece of advice, just the one, to yourself back when you first arrived, what would it be?

And what would be a contest without a prize?

[ when did it become a contest, Totsuka ]

The best and other creative answers will get something cooked by yours truly at a time and place of your convenience; I look forward to all of your contest entries!

Third Person Sample:

He hums to himself as he stirs the pot, a new song he's written since his arrival in this foreign world. Too bad he doesn't have a guitar yet, or he'd play it for the rest of the people stuck here to hear. He's saving up for one right now and saving up for not just a guitar but the rest of the interesting things he wants to try that he's only either seen or heard about.

It's a really interesting world, with all kinds of pokémon and so many things to learn and do. Not that back home wasn't interesting, with his ever-changing hobbies, with the ever-changing sights and with the never-changing HOMRA. He stops for a moment, pausing thoughtfully until someone tugs at clothes.

The charmander. His charmander, apparently. His 'starter pokémon'. It peers upwards at him, sparkly and puppy-eyed with just the slighest hint of impatience. "Haah," Tatara breathes out, mildly amused, "it's nearly done. Just wait a little longer, okay?"

Or, he thinks it is. It's a guess he makes from his past experiments in cooking, even if cooking pokémon food is an entirely new area and one he had only just started foraying into weeks ago when he first arrived. The idea to mix a lot of ingredients along with the basic pokémon food was fresher and more recent; from the smell of the mixture inside the pot, it seems like a success, just as he thought it'd be.

Scooping a little up, he test tastes it before offering it to the charmander, watching as it eagerly scoffs the food down and then clamours for more. "Easy, easy~" Tatara tells it as he turns the cooking fire off and reaches for a plate. As he sets it down, he playfully adds, "Bon appétit."

Watching the charmander eat eagerly, Tatara decides cooking is still a hobby he can't give up.

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