Clive Shiriki Iliopoulos

Name: Clive Shiriki Iliopoulos
Alias: N/A
Age: 12
Gender: Male
Height: 4’7” (140 cm)
Weight: 78 lbs (35 kg)
Alignment: Neutral
Birth Date: February 28th, 2009
Western Horoscope: Pisces
Birth Place: Chicago, IL, USA

Skills/Talents: Clive is skilled at writing (for his age) and loves deduction games. He is fluent in English due to growing up in an American and British family, and he has learned Russian while spending time with his aunt’s family in Russia. He knows a little Spanish from his American school. Unfortunately, he is still learning Japanese, and his pronunciations are awkward.

He knows a lot about music and has considered becoming a professional musician when he grows up.  He can play the piano and violin thanks to private lessons, and he can also play the recorder, which he had to learn in school. Recently, he has started learning the flute and the guitar.

Backpack Contents:

• Water bottle
  
• A mystery novel (English or Russian)
  
• His flute, usually separated into pieces to fit more easily
  
• A notebook filled with his practice of Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji
  
• A black pen, mechanical pencil, lead, and an eraser
  
• English-Japanese dictionary
• Kanji dictionary
  

Digivice:  A blue-violet smartphone digivice.  It's brand-new without any scratches or signs of damage.

Personality:  Clive has number of allergies to animals.  He's allergic to dogs, cats, horses, wool, and goose feathers, which has prevented him from keeping any pets other than fish or reptiles.  He also has Celiac disease and lactose intolerance.  Unfortunately, being unable to eat the same food as everyone else has made him feel isolated at school and in family gatherings  His parents have always been workaholics, leaving him to be raised mostly by nannies, babysitters, and other family members.  Now that he's living in Japan, surrounding by people of a different language and culture than he grew up with, he feels more isolated than ever.

He is timid and withdrawn with low self-esteem, which makes him sensitive to benign remarks; he has trouble believing anyone when they compliment them and interprets their words as them “just being nice.”  Since he feels isolated, he tends to keep to himself more and feels like he never truly fits in.

He loves studying music and playing musical instruments.

He prefers to avoid fighting whenever possible and tries to talk things through.  He has no experience whatsoever with camping and tends to freeze up in unfamiliar environments.

Appearance: Clive is shorter and scrawnier than most boys his age, which as led him to becoming more introverted and withdrawn. He appears lanky and bony with long limbs in the awkward proportions of a growing child.  He’s Caucasian with freckles, and his skin is quite pale from staying inside most of the time.  Of course, this makes him prone to getting sunburns as well.  Although he was born with wispy white hair, it has gradually darkened to a curly, soft platinum blond that reaches his chin.  His bangs have grown out.  He has brown eyes with long blond eyelashes that blend in with his skin tone.  He wears navy blue glasses for his nearsightedness.

When around other people, Clive tends to hunch his back and gaze at the floor, but he'll stand tall when relaxed and comfortable on his own or around familiar people.  He's somewhat clumsy and tends to trip on things, especially those he can only see at the rims of his glasses.

Clive tends to wear posh American name-brand clothing that he hasn't quite grown out of.  Oftentimes, his ankles peek out from under his pants.  After moving to Japan, he now has a school uniform and some traditional Japanese attire.  If it's a school day, he usually wears his school uniform.  Otherwise, he often wears jeans and t-shirts.

While out in public, Clive tends to wear hats to hide his hair since he doesn't like looking different from everyone else.

Personal History: His mother is wealthy socialite from the UK, but she moved to North America for business opportunities after completing college.  She always wanted to travel and spent time visiting various countries for work and vacation. Eventually, she settled down with a wealthy American man in the same line of work and married him.  Even so, they continued to travel frequently, not always together, due to work, making them feel more married to their careers than each other.

They eventually gave birth to Clive, and his mother stayed home to take care of him during his infancy up until he began attending preschool instead.  After that, his mom joined his dad in working once again, leaving their only child to be raised more by nannies and babysitters than his parents.  He also spent quite a lot of timing visiting relatives.  Since his aunt moved to Russia for her marriage, he stayed with her family often while growing up, especially when his parents took business trips and couldn't take care of him, and he became fluent in Russian.

He deeply admires his elder cousin, Viktoriya Romanova, who came across as mature, elegant, and extremely intelligent. Despite their age gap, they share a love of mysteries and puzzles. When he was younger, their family would joke that he followed her around like a duckling.  Unfortunately, he hasn't gotten to visit her as much since he became old enough to stay at home by himself.  One of the reasons his parents chose to move to Shibuya for their transfer to Japan was to let him hang out with his cousin, who would also serve the job of a free babysitter, once again.

He is currently attending a private middle school while trying to learn as much Japanese as he can.  Since his classmates struggle too much at pronouncing the name "Clive," he's resorted to using his middle name, Shiriki, a Native American name, in class instead.