Kazuya Fujimoto & Dux
Jan 24, 2022 23:59:13 GMT
Post by Kazuya Fujimoto on Jan 24, 2022 23:59:13 GMT
Name: Kazuya Fujimoto
Alias: Kazu
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11
Weight: 183 lbs
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Birth Date: August 10
Western Horoscope: Leo
Birth Place: Shibuya
Skills/Talents: Guitar: Kazu is a semi-decent guitar player but has never put in the effort to advance his skills beyond a few personal favourite songs.
Basketball: Kazu is a reasonably talented basketball player but again, has never quite managed to fully develop this skill and has let himself get slightly out of shape.
Sketching: One more skill that Kazu has only partially developed, he can do a decent sketch relatively quickly but doesn't quite have the skill for anything more detailed.
IT: Kazu knows the very basics of computer code and programming but lost interest in this even quicker than most other hobbies.
Archery: Kazu knows the basics of how to aim and fire a bow but is hardly an expert marksman.
Close-up magic: Kazu has a decent repertoire of basic magic tricks.
Memory: Kazu has an exceptionally good memory, rarely forgetting a face, a name or a detail.
Strategic: While not great at thinking on his feet, Kazu has an impressive mind for strategy if given time to get his thoughts in order, both long term and short term.
Backpack Contents:
Digivice: A Digivice IC with a white front and dark grey back and buttons.
Personality: Kazu is quite intelligent although his academic record would suggest that he is slightly above average at best. Most people would say that he is lazy and aimless, not living up to his potential. Kazu himself would agree with the second part but would argue that this is because he doesn't yet know what direction he should go to fulfill his potential. The truth is a mix of the two; while Kazu does struggle to find something that he can be passionate about, the fact of the matter is that his search is stymied by his own tendency to completely give up on things the moment he starts to lose interest.
He tends to be friendly and easy going, if a bit obnoxious and cocky due to his habit of coasting through life on natural talent. He has a wide range of friends but his lack of passion prevents those friendships from being particularly close. He generally lacks any subjects that he can make a meaningful connection with due to his lack of any hobbies that he has stuck with and several times in the past he has wound up burning bridges when he dropped a hobby without warning, such as when he abruptly quit his school's basketball team after losing interest in the sport. This, combined with his unwillingness to take much of an interest in other people's hobbies once he's determined that they're not what he's looking for, has given him a reputation as being flaky and unreliable, a nice guy but one you would trust with anything important. His friendships tend to be casual and somewhat shallow.
Kazu can certainly be self-centred, almost to the point of callousness. His lack of motivation in his own life leaves him unable to relate to people who do have something they are passionate about. This makes him come across as uninterested at best and openly dismissive and insulting at worst. He doesn't understand why people put so much effort into things when faced with adversity and rarely makes much of a secret of it, which can certainly rub people the wrong way. When this does cause arguments he backtracks and apologises quickly, usually not invested enough in the topic to actually argue over it, but even his apologies are noticeably half-hearted. He does want to be friendly and an overall nice person but as with so many things, he simply can't bring himself to put that much effort into it.
It should be noted that Kazu does genuinely want to find something in life that he can be passionate about. Indeed, his deepest dream is to do something with his life that will make a mark in the world, something that people in future generations will be able to point to and say that the world is better for it, or at least that the world is noticeably changed by it. Unfortunately, by this point he can't help but doubt that any activity will be more gripping than any of the many abandoned interests of his past and it has become a habit to put minimal effort into whatever he does. He is at least vaguely aware that this is a degenerative cycle, only further reducing the odds of him getting truly invested in anything, but that knowledge is insufficient to break the cycle.
On the arguably brighter side, Kazu's lazy attitude has left him with the ability to stay calm and think things through rationally. While he can be flustered and thrown off guard if things start happening around him very quickly, he can quickly rebalance himself and proceed to plan out a response if given a moment to gather his thoughts. His emotional detachment from most things around him mean that he is also unlikely to be overwhelmed by emotions. He rarely loses his temper or truly panics, nor is he likely to be crippled by regrets even if he makes a serious mistake. Whatever the situation, he aims to proceed forward calmly and strategically to make the best of his circumstances.
Kazu has picked up and discarded a wide range of hobbies and interests, leaving him with a variety of semi-developed skills. These hobbies have included basketball, art, guitar, close-up magic, archery, programming, gardening, coin collecting, poetry, chess and a variety of board, card and computer games. He does still retain an interest in reading, particularly focussing on fantasy and science-fiction, and occasionally plays certain online strategy games but these are more ways to kill time that don't require much investment rather than hobbies he is genuinely passionate about. He also has been known to spend time napping when neither of these pastimes can manage to hold his interest.
Appearance: Kazu is a relatively tall teenager who, while not quite out of shape, seems to be on the verge of letting himself go, having just a touch of paunch around his waist. He has shoulder length black hair, generally either left to hang loose or tied back in a messy ponytail. He has a long face, often set into a bored frown or occasionally a lazy grin, with narrow brown eyes and pierced ears.
His style of dress tends to be a tiny bit scruffy, as he pays little attention to what he wears. He tends to favour loose, comfortable clothing in darker colours and while he doesn't exactly neglect basic hygiene, he is likely to ignore minor stains and tears so long as they are not immediately apparent.
FaceClaim: NARUTO • shikamaru nara • Kazuya Fujimoto
Personal History: Kazuya is the third child out of four in his family, having an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother. If the Fujimoto family were to be summed up in one word, it would probably be "accomplished". His father is a respected and successful psychologist who has attained some degree of fame and has published a book on his theories and practices while his mother is a similarly successful corporate lawyer. His siblings have all consistently performed well academically and by the present, his eldest brother has become a criminal defense attorney and his sister is studying physics abroad while his thirteen year old younger brother is complimenting his academic success with a great degree of competency in playing the violin that borders on the prodigious.
In his youth, Kazuya seemed to be following this same pattern, scoring exceptionally well in school and showing athletic promise as a skilled basketball player. Unfortunately, he came to feel that his academic success was just following in the footsteps of his older siblings, preventing him from taking much pride in it and as his interest waned, he began to focus more on his athletic skills while allowing his academics to falter. While his parents were openly displeased by this as they always encouraged their children to aim to excel in everything they did, but ultimately they reluctantly decided that as his grades were still far from failing and he was still putting energy into something else, there was no need for any drastic intervention even if they continued to pressure him into resuming his previous academic excellence.
Kazuya's decline was not yet complete, however. While basketball did allow him to excel in a way that distinguished him from his older siblings, he soon found the same creeping discontent that had affected his academics starting to infect his enjoyment of the game. He found himself more and more beginning to simply go through the motions, no longer taking the same enjoyment from the game that he had when he first started playing. This malaise started to affect his performance and as he found himself putting in more effort for less returns, his discontent only grew until he abruptly quit his team, abandoning the game that he had focussed so much of his energy on entirely.
At this point Kazuya's parents were more alarmed and began to try to more directly push him into resuming his pursuit of academic and athletic excellence but he made it clear that he had no interest in either and no amount of parental discipline or encouragement could do much to motivate him to do more than the absolute minimum. There was briefly hope when he started learning the guitar but that lasted just under a year before he once again grew bored and abandoned it. After that he tried to take up art but that only lasted six months. The succession of hobbies that followed each lasted anywhere from a few months to a mere two weeks.
As much as Kazuya's home life was strained by this repeated abandonment of any projects he began, he couldn't bring himself to stick with any of them and the repeated failures to find something he could get invested in began to wear on him. While his parents began to toss about words like "lazy" and "undisciplined", the truth was that he was just as frustrated as them by his inability to commit to anything. He admired his family's various successes and he envied how satisfied they all seemed to be with their chosen professions and achievements. He was initially convinced that he could find something that he found equally fulfilling but with each failure, he became more cynical and disinterested. This, combined with the stress of his now badly deteriorated relationship with his family, caused their fears that he was simply lazy to become a self fulfilling prophecy. As he began to doubt that any new interest he took up would be any more successful than the last, and as he felt that his parents had already made up their mind that he was lazy, he found it increasingly difficult to find a reason to put any real effort into anything.
His overall attitude became increasingly apathetic and tired, the gaps between new hobbies began to stretch longer while each successive attempt at a new one became half-hearted at best and his social and familial relations grew even more strained as he stopped putting much effort into maintaining them. He even began shortening his name to just Kazu, as if even pronouncing his full name was too much effort. By this point, it seems increasingly likely that only a miracle can break him out of his funk.
Alias: Kazu
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11
Weight: 183 lbs
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Birth Date: August 10
Western Horoscope: Leo
Birth Place: Shibuya
Skills/Talents: Guitar: Kazu is a semi-decent guitar player but has never put in the effort to advance his skills beyond a few personal favourite songs.
Basketball: Kazu is a reasonably talented basketball player but again, has never quite managed to fully develop this skill and has let himself get slightly out of shape.
Sketching: One more skill that Kazu has only partially developed, he can do a decent sketch relatively quickly but doesn't quite have the skill for anything more detailed.
IT: Kazu knows the very basics of computer code and programming but lost interest in this even quicker than most other hobbies.
Archery: Kazu knows the basics of how to aim and fire a bow but is hardly an expert marksman.
Close-up magic: Kazu has a decent repertoire of basic magic tricks.
Memory: Kazu has an exceptionally good memory, rarely forgetting a face, a name or a detail.
Strategic: While not great at thinking on his feet, Kazu has an impressive mind for strategy if given time to get his thoughts in order, both long term and short term.
Backpack Contents:
- Deck of cards
- Phone
- Paperback book
Digivice: A Digivice IC with a white front and dark grey back and buttons.
Personality: Kazu is quite intelligent although his academic record would suggest that he is slightly above average at best. Most people would say that he is lazy and aimless, not living up to his potential. Kazu himself would agree with the second part but would argue that this is because he doesn't yet know what direction he should go to fulfill his potential. The truth is a mix of the two; while Kazu does struggle to find something that he can be passionate about, the fact of the matter is that his search is stymied by his own tendency to completely give up on things the moment he starts to lose interest.
He tends to be friendly and easy going, if a bit obnoxious and cocky due to his habit of coasting through life on natural talent. He has a wide range of friends but his lack of passion prevents those friendships from being particularly close. He generally lacks any subjects that he can make a meaningful connection with due to his lack of any hobbies that he has stuck with and several times in the past he has wound up burning bridges when he dropped a hobby without warning, such as when he abruptly quit his school's basketball team after losing interest in the sport. This, combined with his unwillingness to take much of an interest in other people's hobbies once he's determined that they're not what he's looking for, has given him a reputation as being flaky and unreliable, a nice guy but one you would trust with anything important. His friendships tend to be casual and somewhat shallow.
Kazu can certainly be self-centred, almost to the point of callousness. His lack of motivation in his own life leaves him unable to relate to people who do have something they are passionate about. This makes him come across as uninterested at best and openly dismissive and insulting at worst. He doesn't understand why people put so much effort into things when faced with adversity and rarely makes much of a secret of it, which can certainly rub people the wrong way. When this does cause arguments he backtracks and apologises quickly, usually not invested enough in the topic to actually argue over it, but even his apologies are noticeably half-hearted. He does want to be friendly and an overall nice person but as with so many things, he simply can't bring himself to put that much effort into it.
It should be noted that Kazu does genuinely want to find something in life that he can be passionate about. Indeed, his deepest dream is to do something with his life that will make a mark in the world, something that people in future generations will be able to point to and say that the world is better for it, or at least that the world is noticeably changed by it. Unfortunately, by this point he can't help but doubt that any activity will be more gripping than any of the many abandoned interests of his past and it has become a habit to put minimal effort into whatever he does. He is at least vaguely aware that this is a degenerative cycle, only further reducing the odds of him getting truly invested in anything, but that knowledge is insufficient to break the cycle.
On the arguably brighter side, Kazu's lazy attitude has left him with the ability to stay calm and think things through rationally. While he can be flustered and thrown off guard if things start happening around him very quickly, he can quickly rebalance himself and proceed to plan out a response if given a moment to gather his thoughts. His emotional detachment from most things around him mean that he is also unlikely to be overwhelmed by emotions. He rarely loses his temper or truly panics, nor is he likely to be crippled by regrets even if he makes a serious mistake. Whatever the situation, he aims to proceed forward calmly and strategically to make the best of his circumstances.
Kazu has picked up and discarded a wide range of hobbies and interests, leaving him with a variety of semi-developed skills. These hobbies have included basketball, art, guitar, close-up magic, archery, programming, gardening, coin collecting, poetry, chess and a variety of board, card and computer games. He does still retain an interest in reading, particularly focussing on fantasy and science-fiction, and occasionally plays certain online strategy games but these are more ways to kill time that don't require much investment rather than hobbies he is genuinely passionate about. He also has been known to spend time napping when neither of these pastimes can manage to hold his interest.
Appearance: Kazu is a relatively tall teenager who, while not quite out of shape, seems to be on the verge of letting himself go, having just a touch of paunch around his waist. He has shoulder length black hair, generally either left to hang loose or tied back in a messy ponytail. He has a long face, often set into a bored frown or occasionally a lazy grin, with narrow brown eyes and pierced ears.
His style of dress tends to be a tiny bit scruffy, as he pays little attention to what he wears. He tends to favour loose, comfortable clothing in darker colours and while he doesn't exactly neglect basic hygiene, he is likely to ignore minor stains and tears so long as they are not immediately apparent.
FaceClaim: NARUTO • shikamaru nara • Kazuya Fujimoto
Personal History: Kazuya is the third child out of four in his family, having an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother. If the Fujimoto family were to be summed up in one word, it would probably be "accomplished". His father is a respected and successful psychologist who has attained some degree of fame and has published a book on his theories and practices while his mother is a similarly successful corporate lawyer. His siblings have all consistently performed well academically and by the present, his eldest brother has become a criminal defense attorney and his sister is studying physics abroad while his thirteen year old younger brother is complimenting his academic success with a great degree of competency in playing the violin that borders on the prodigious.
In his youth, Kazuya seemed to be following this same pattern, scoring exceptionally well in school and showing athletic promise as a skilled basketball player. Unfortunately, he came to feel that his academic success was just following in the footsteps of his older siblings, preventing him from taking much pride in it and as his interest waned, he began to focus more on his athletic skills while allowing his academics to falter. While his parents were openly displeased by this as they always encouraged their children to aim to excel in everything they did, but ultimately they reluctantly decided that as his grades were still far from failing and he was still putting energy into something else, there was no need for any drastic intervention even if they continued to pressure him into resuming his previous academic excellence.
Kazuya's decline was not yet complete, however. While basketball did allow him to excel in a way that distinguished him from his older siblings, he soon found the same creeping discontent that had affected his academics starting to infect his enjoyment of the game. He found himself more and more beginning to simply go through the motions, no longer taking the same enjoyment from the game that he had when he first started playing. This malaise started to affect his performance and as he found himself putting in more effort for less returns, his discontent only grew until he abruptly quit his team, abandoning the game that he had focussed so much of his energy on entirely.
At this point Kazuya's parents were more alarmed and began to try to more directly push him into resuming his pursuit of academic and athletic excellence but he made it clear that he had no interest in either and no amount of parental discipline or encouragement could do much to motivate him to do more than the absolute minimum. There was briefly hope when he started learning the guitar but that lasted just under a year before he once again grew bored and abandoned it. After that he tried to take up art but that only lasted six months. The succession of hobbies that followed each lasted anywhere from a few months to a mere two weeks.
As much as Kazuya's home life was strained by this repeated abandonment of any projects he began, he couldn't bring himself to stick with any of them and the repeated failures to find something he could get invested in began to wear on him. While his parents began to toss about words like "lazy" and "undisciplined", the truth was that he was just as frustrated as them by his inability to commit to anything. He admired his family's various successes and he envied how satisfied they all seemed to be with their chosen professions and achievements. He was initially convinced that he could find something that he found equally fulfilling but with each failure, he became more cynical and disinterested. This, combined with the stress of his now badly deteriorated relationship with his family, caused their fears that he was simply lazy to become a self fulfilling prophecy. As he began to doubt that any new interest he took up would be any more successful than the last, and as he felt that his parents had already made up their mind that he was lazy, he found it increasingly difficult to find a reason to put any real effort into anything.
His overall attitude became increasingly apathetic and tired, the gaps between new hobbies began to stretch longer while each successive attempt at a new one became half-hearted at best and his social and familial relations grew even more strained as he stopped putting much effort into maintaining them. He even began shortening his name to just Kazu, as if even pronouncing his full name was too much effort. By this point, it seems increasingly likely that only a miracle can break him out of his funk.
