Player Name and Pronouns: Yama, she/her Contact:Yamadori or pm; plurk is preferred, so feel free to add me if we have or are planning to have ongoing cr! Timezone: pst, but i'm not awake at times like i live in pst 🙃
Character Name: Akira Kurusu Canon: Persona 5 Strikers Character Age: 18 General Info: Akira is the protagonist of the Persona 5 series! he can be tricky to get a read on, because he's someone that wears too many masks to count. he's what people need him to be, or shifts himself to whatever's needed to reach his goal. though perfectly friendly and polite to strangers, thanks to the false charges pressed against him it can be difficult to earn enough trust for him to open up and share anything real. once you do, though, Akira will be unfailingly loyal and with you for the long haul.
Akira hates injustice more than anything else, especially people abusing their money or power to get what they want. if it was something that he was capable of ignoring, he never would've ended up on probation in Tokyo, but looking the other way is just something he can't do. his own strict moral code demanded justice so much that he kind of unlocked supernatural powers and started a vigilante group to take down corrupt people in power. Akira keeps pretty quiet about it, so it's probably not anything important ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
some other quick beats include - he loves cats, is a great listener, often makes terrible puns or word play jokes, is an honors student, can sometimes just be a little bit too morally gray, and is great at making both coffee and curry. your everyday standup young man that lives a totally normal life who definitely doesn't steal hearts or summon a demon gentleman thief. Permissions Post:here!
State Of: so much has happened to him since the last time i did this, i don't even know where to begin 😂 the best tl;dr i can give: for people he hasn't met yet or hasn't deepened his relationships with enough, it'll still be business as usual, with all of his perfectly polite masks in place, maybe with just little bits of mischief depending on who you are. for closer cr + the ones who've had A Moment (you know who you are), you'll notice that his behaviors are settling into something more solid. less fluid, less static. this is because Akira is shifting more into acting as himself, thanks to several important promises and a reminder of who he is and what he's meant to do. the latter means he will be keeping a far closer eye on plot developments than he already was, but it may or may not become apparent to other people just yet.
also - if your character has tried to contact him from the 2nd to the ~9th (guesstimation), well. he just got in a little fight <3 it was just a little accident <3 he'll be back on his feet and totally fine (?) by the time the event rolls around. don't worry about it. (if i have the time/bandwidth, i will play around with this for a few folks :3)
CR Desires/RP Wishlist: i hate saying everything but it really is just everything fsdljkfsdljk cries... all of Akira's canon friends are weird so i'd love for him to eventually have a bunch of wacky friends here, too... part of his whole Thing is matching to what another person needs him to be + masking accordingly, so he. really does work with almost anybody, lol. what he's always thinking of is how somebody can help him and - prioritized a lot higher - what Akira can do for somebody else. what's harder is getting him to have genuine bonds of trust and friendship; he'll always be courteous, probably even if someone doesn't show him the same, but getting him to trust and genuinely open up to another person is a slow-burn no matter what. it's a slow burn that i love, though, so if you want to jump on that ride with him let's work towards it :'D
addendum 1: i absolutely love and adore neg cr. however it's extremely difficult to get neg cr with Akira because it's hard to bother him unless your chara is like. somebody in authority abusing their power and making life terrible for others. i suffer 😭 it's definitely still doable, just takes more work, so if you want to angle for that let me know and we can try to plot something for now or later!!
addendum 2: if your chara has very close cr with Akechi or Maruki, i'd love for Akira to meet them! he and Akechi have a lot of [spoilers redacted], and Maruki is an It's Complicated But Treasured - for different reasons, both of them are important to him, and I'd love for him to have cr in-laws! let's have those important chats.
Non-Event Plans: my non-event plans are wrapping up what i currently have, since i have stuff that's still going from... november LOL help me. i have a couple of things i'd like to backdate and/or just start in the present-ish as soon as i have time to touch on them, which are primarily continuations of things that came up during sleepr.
Event Plans: as i've mentioned on plurk, i'm moving more into doing closed logs/closed toplevels because i try to have a limited number of active threads and it's just a lot easier for me to manage! i'm way over my thread limit, which is supposed to be... six... so i will probably be Late to getting anything going (i apologize!!!), but reach out to me if you have something special in mind and i'll stamp the dance card for you 🙏
as for the event itself, Akira has five million things that he's hiding at any given time so this is great for him. let's go. i do need to opt out/skim/fade-to-black some of the body horror elements for the flower petal portion (sorry it's me it's not you), but otherwise he Will be getting very sick from this. if i'm not super swamped i'll touch on the royal audience + crystal corruption, but i'll at least handwave that Akira was around listening in the former even if not really engaging.
Anything else: sorry i got too lazy to look for another gif, pretend he's still dancing
Yama
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Timezone: pst, but i'm not awake at times like i live in pst 🙃
Character Name: Akira Kurusu
Canon: Persona 5 Strikers
Character Age: 18
General Info: Akira is the protagonist of the Persona 5 series! he can be tricky to get a read on, because he's someone that wears too many masks to count. he's what people need him to be, or shifts himself to whatever's needed to reach his goal. though perfectly friendly and polite to strangers, thanks to the false charges pressed against him it can be difficult to earn enough trust for him to open up and share anything real. once you do, though, Akira will be unfailingly loyal and with you for the long haul.
Akira hates injustice more than anything else, especially people abusing their money or power to get what they want. if it was something that he was capable of ignoring, he never would've ended up on probation in Tokyo, but looking the other way is just something he can't do. his own strict moral code demanded justice so much that he kind of unlocked supernatural powers and started a vigilante group to take down corrupt people in power. Akira keeps pretty quiet about it, so it's probably not anything important ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
some other quick beats include - he loves cats, is a great listener, often makes terrible puns or word play jokes, is an honors student, can sometimes just be a little bit too morally gray, and is great at making both coffee and curry. your everyday standup young man that lives a totally normal life who definitely doesn't steal hearts or summon a demon gentleman thief.
Permissions Post: here!
State Of: so much has happened to him since the last time i did this, i don't even know where to begin 😂 the best tl;dr i can give: for people he hasn't met yet or hasn't deepened his relationships with enough, it'll still be business as usual, with all of his perfectly polite masks in place, maybe with just little bits of mischief depending on who you are. for closer cr + the ones who've had A Moment (you know who you are), you'll notice that his behaviors are settling into something more solid. less fluid, less static. this is because Akira is shifting more into acting as himself, thanks to several important promises and a reminder of who he is and what he's meant to do. the latter means he will be keeping a far closer eye on plot developments than he already was, but it may or may not become apparent to other people just yet.
also - if your character has tried to contact him from the 2nd to the ~9th (guesstimation), well. he just got in a little fight <3 it was just a little accident <3 he'll be back on his feet and totally fine (?) by the time the event rolls around. don't worry about it. (if i have the time/bandwidth, i will play around with this for a few folks :3)
CR Desires/RP Wishlist: i hate saying everything but it really is just everything fsdljkfsdljk cries... all of Akira's canon friends are weird so i'd love for him to eventually have a bunch of wacky friends here, too... part of his whole Thing is matching to what another person needs him to be + masking accordingly, so he. really does work with almost anybody, lol. what he's always thinking of is how somebody can help him and - prioritized a lot higher - what Akira can do for somebody else. what's harder is getting him to have genuine bonds of trust and friendship; he'll always be courteous, probably even if someone doesn't show him the same, but getting him to trust and genuinely open up to another person is a slow-burn no matter what. it's a slow burn that i love, though, so if you want to jump on that ride with him let's work towards it :'D
addendum 1: i absolutely love and adore neg cr. however it's extremely difficult to get neg cr with Akira because it's hard to bother him unless your chara is like. somebody in authority abusing their power and making life terrible for others. i suffer 😭 it's definitely still doable, just takes more work, so if you want to angle for that let me know and we can try to plot something for now or later!!
addendum 2: if your chara has very close cr with Akechi or Maruki, i'd love for Akira to meet them! he and Akechi have a lot of [spoilers redacted], and Maruki is an It's Complicated But Treasured - for different reasons, both of them are important to him, and I'd love for him to have cr in-laws! let's have those important chats.
Non-Event Plans: my non-event plans are wrapping up what i currently have, since i have stuff that's still going from... november LOL help me. i have a couple of things i'd like to backdate and/or just start in the present-ish as soon as i have time to touch on them, which are primarily continuations of things that came up during sleepr.
Event Plans: as i've mentioned on plurk, i'm moving more into doing closed logs/closed toplevels because i try to have a limited number of active threads and it's just a lot easier for me to manage! i'm way over my thread limit, which is supposed to be... six... so i will probably be Late to getting anything going (i apologize!!!), but reach out to me if you have something special in mind and i'll stamp the dance card for you 🙏
as for the event itself, Akira has five million things that he's hiding at any given time so this is great for him. let's go. i do need to opt out/skim/fade-to-black some of the body horror elements for the flower petal portion (sorry it's me it's not you), but otherwise he Will be getting very sick from this. if i'm not super swamped i'll touch on the royal audience + crystal corruption, but i'll at least handwave that Akira was around listening in the former even if not really engaging.
Anything else: sorry i got too lazy to look for another gif, pretend he's still dancing