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NAME: Em
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CONTACT: If not on plurk, emma.glaze@skype.
ARE YOU 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER?: Yes
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION;
NAME: Hanamura Yosuke
CANON: Persona 4/P4Arena
BACKGROUND INFO: link
CANON POINT: During his conclusion in P4A; upon seeing his shadow and being unable to summon his Persona, at the height of his emotional stress.
APPEARANCE: link
"NAME":
PERSONALITY:
When it comes down to it, Yosuke Hanamura is a kid who doesn’t know what he wants.
He has some idea of what he should want, sure. There's no way to forget what he’s supposed to be doing with his life: get good grades, don’t slack off at work, be responsible and begin the transition into adulthood as smoothly as possible. Be self possessed, sure of himself, and a better man than he could ever really hope to be. But unlike those who rise to their cultures’ high expectations, Yosuke buckles underneath their weight. Where’s the thrill in adulthood? Where’s the freedom in choosing a single path? Yosuke isn’t exactly a free spirit -- far from it, actually -- and his heavy reservations over growing up are based more off a fear of failing those around him by simply being himself. Shaken together in an insecurity cocktail, Yosuke finds himself desperate to meet a standard that his low self-esteem asserts he’ll never attain. He throws everything into winning the approval of others and pushes his own needs to the back burner. But even when he gets the validation he’s after, it never comes with the feeling of relief he hopes for. His nerves are always there in the back of his mind, terrified of making even one misstep and sending his carefully constructed happy-go-lucky, takes-being-the-butt-of-every-joke-with-a-smile, will-totally-pay-for-this-one-guys-no-problem persona toppling over. If anyone ever actually got to know him, Yosuke was positive they would have absolutely no reason to stick around.
And, unfortunately, that fear was something of a self fulfilling prophecy. Yosuke’s over eager behavior and desperateness to please wasn’t only exhausting for him, but for everyone around him. If you sent him a text, he’d respond within thirty seconds (and then another ten minutes later, asking if his text went through. And then another in an hour, asking if everything’s alright. And then another wondering if your phone is broken. And then six more apologizing for being such a needy idiot, lol, sry man jst me being stupd!). If you already have plans when he asks to hang out, it’s hard for him to read it as anything other than a rejection of his entire existence. No matter how you sliced it, it was hard being friends with Yosuke Hanamura. And while it can still be (very) hard, the emphasis there is on 'was'.
Before moving to the small town of Inaba in anticipation of a new Junes location, most of the kids at his Tokyo school are tired of him or were never that close to begin with. Once Yosuke leaves his home in the city (and god does he miss it; the lights, the crowds, the noise), responses to his texts get slower and slower until stopping completely. Combined with being dropped in a town that despises what he and his family symbolize (not much room for local business when everything's great and dirt cheap at your Junes), his loneliness reaches a new low. That isolation is compounded when it’s revealed that the one person who gave him the time of day in Inaba -- Saki Konishi, whom he had a hopeless crush on -- is killed and shown to have secretly been as irritated and exhausted with him as everyone else. His shadow was born of that encounter, and with it a newfound sense of self-awareness.
That incident was the kick in the pants Yosuke really needed, and his change from there on out is as important as it is slowgoing.
Yosuke still separates “people” and “people who he trusts to accept him” in separate categories. Working in retail for his father’s store -- the mega shopping emporium, Junes -- has given him a knack for customer service. It will be an unsettling day when Yosuke realizes just how good a salesman he is. It's this 'persona' that most strangers get; all bright smiles and politeness and how may I help you, sir or madam? Remember, every day is customer appreciation day at Junes!
The people whom he’s close to and trusts get a different picture. Yosuke can be solemn, passionate, proud, insensitive, vulnerable, and intensely furious when riled. However, his inherent snark and clumsy inexperience when it comes to being himself around people can lead to many unfortunate foot-in-mouth moments. His ribbing and teasing can certainly go too far, although being called on it usually leads to an apology (if his defensive teenage streak allows) or a speedy subject change. When it doesn’t, a quick threat of physical violence is a surefire way to send him cowering. If there’s one thing Yosuke avoids unless pressed to his brink, it’s confrontation. Even with all the growing he’s done overtime, the fear of losing all he’s gained still lurks in the back of his mind.
And what does he stand to lose? Only the best friends a guy could possibly luck into. While he has an unique relationship with each of his his teammates -- Chie is like a sister (a really annoying sister who he loves like hell); Kanji triples as his competition, friend and kohai; Rise is the girl of his dreams (and in the real world, a good friend who actually seems to like his jokes); Naoto, the detective who's serious demeanor clashes with his own, making her all the more fun to tease; Yukiko, the girl he'll probably never be as close to thanks to Chie and his own awkwardness, but cares about deeply; and Teddie, his charge, little brother, bear-thing, and the one person he truly feels solely responsible for.
His closest relationship is with Souji, his best friend. Together since the beginning, Yosuke dubbed them 'partners' early on. At first, this was in relation to the case for the most part; they'd made their promise to Teddie to find the murderer and they were going to solve it together, as a team. But as the case wore on, their numbers grew, and their friendship began taking shape into what would be the most important in Yosuke's life, the nickname stuck. In getting closer and working through the leftover ache of Saki's death, Yosuke is unique in that he takes Souji off his pedestal as leader from time to time. He finds him to be 'special', but being true equals is by far his priority. Partners, in the truest sense. Yosuke isn't content to simply act as a leech, pouring all his angst onto Souji without giving anything back in return. That may have been enough for him once, but not now; not when he realizes what it's like to truly have a friend.
All those friendships, all that growth, it all amounts to a teenager on the cusp of adulthood scratching at the surface of who he really is and what he really wants. Things aren’t as bad as they used to be. He has genuine friends now, ones that know who he is and like him anyway. It opens his eyes to the possibility that working and working at making people like him isn’t the necessity he thought it was; that maybe people might actually like him. What a concept! Although he still has a long ways to go and many maturity hurdles to jump before he really gets there, he is getting there. Slowly but surely.
AMNESIA'D!: While under the amnesia's effects, Yosuke will be reverting back to his personality at the very beginning of the initial P4 title. This means that he will be much more shelled off, fake, superficial, and unaccepting of himself. He will balk at the idea of getting very serious with anyone, and he will jump at anything that catches his interest and relieves him of his boredom on even the basest of levels. He will not remember Souji, Saki, any of his other friends, or even his parents. His level of responsibility will be at an all time low and his self interest at an all time high. The capacity to grow into a better person will be there, as it always was, but it will be heavily shrouded in immaturity and a lack of self awareness.
SAMPLES;
THREAD LINKS:
(1) (2) (3)
QUESTIONNAIRE: Your character must answer the following questions.
NAME: Em
PLURK:
CONTACT: If not on plurk, emma.glaze@skype.
ARE YOU 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER?: Yes
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION;
NAME: Hanamura Yosuke
CANON: Persona 4/P4Arena
BACKGROUND INFO: link
CANON POINT: During his conclusion in P4A; upon seeing his shadow and being unable to summon his Persona, at the height of his emotional stress.
APPEARANCE: link
"NAME":
PERSONALITY:
When it comes down to it, Yosuke Hanamura is a kid who doesn’t know what he wants.
He has some idea of what he should want, sure. There's no way to forget what he’s supposed to be doing with his life: get good grades, don’t slack off at work, be responsible and begin the transition into adulthood as smoothly as possible. Be self possessed, sure of himself, and a better man than he could ever really hope to be. But unlike those who rise to their cultures’ high expectations, Yosuke buckles underneath their weight. Where’s the thrill in adulthood? Where’s the freedom in choosing a single path? Yosuke isn’t exactly a free spirit -- far from it, actually -- and his heavy reservations over growing up are based more off a fear of failing those around him by simply being himself. Shaken together in an insecurity cocktail, Yosuke finds himself desperate to meet a standard that his low self-esteem asserts he’ll never attain. He throws everything into winning the approval of others and pushes his own needs to the back burner. But even when he gets the validation he’s after, it never comes with the feeling of relief he hopes for. His nerves are always there in the back of his mind, terrified of making even one misstep and sending his carefully constructed happy-go-lucky, takes-being-the-butt-of-every-joke-with-a-smile, will-totally-pay-for-this-one-guys-no-problem persona toppling over. If anyone ever actually got to know him, Yosuke was positive they would have absolutely no reason to stick around.
And, unfortunately, that fear was something of a self fulfilling prophecy. Yosuke’s over eager behavior and desperateness to please wasn’t only exhausting for him, but for everyone around him. If you sent him a text, he’d respond within thirty seconds (and then another ten minutes later, asking if his text went through. And then another in an hour, asking if everything’s alright. And then another wondering if your phone is broken. And then six more apologizing for being such a needy idiot, lol, sry man jst me being stupd!). If you already have plans when he asks to hang out, it’s hard for him to read it as anything other than a rejection of his entire existence. No matter how you sliced it, it was hard being friends with Yosuke Hanamura. And while it can still be (very) hard, the emphasis there is on 'was'.
Before moving to the small town of Inaba in anticipation of a new Junes location, most of the kids at his Tokyo school are tired of him or were never that close to begin with. Once Yosuke leaves his home in the city (and god does he miss it; the lights, the crowds, the noise), responses to his texts get slower and slower until stopping completely. Combined with being dropped in a town that despises what he and his family symbolize (not much room for local business when everything's great and dirt cheap at your Junes), his loneliness reaches a new low. That isolation is compounded when it’s revealed that the one person who gave him the time of day in Inaba -- Saki Konishi, whom he had a hopeless crush on -- is killed and shown to have secretly been as irritated and exhausted with him as everyone else. His shadow was born of that encounter, and with it a newfound sense of self-awareness.
That incident was the kick in the pants Yosuke really needed, and his change from there on out is as important as it is slowgoing.
Yosuke still separates “people” and “people who he trusts to accept him” in separate categories. Working in retail for his father’s store -- the mega shopping emporium, Junes -- has given him a knack for customer service. It will be an unsettling day when Yosuke realizes just how good a salesman he is. It's this 'persona' that most strangers get; all bright smiles and politeness and how may I help you, sir or madam? Remember, every day is customer appreciation day at Junes!
The people whom he’s close to and trusts get a different picture. Yosuke can be solemn, passionate, proud, insensitive, vulnerable, and intensely furious when riled. However, his inherent snark and clumsy inexperience when it comes to being himself around people can lead to many unfortunate foot-in-mouth moments. His ribbing and teasing can certainly go too far, although being called on it usually leads to an apology (if his defensive teenage streak allows) or a speedy subject change. When it doesn’t, a quick threat of physical violence is a surefire way to send him cowering. If there’s one thing Yosuke avoids unless pressed to his brink, it’s confrontation. Even with all the growing he’s done overtime, the fear of losing all he’s gained still lurks in the back of his mind.
And what does he stand to lose? Only the best friends a guy could possibly luck into. While he has an unique relationship with each of his his teammates -- Chie is like a sister (a really annoying sister who he loves like hell); Kanji triples as his competition, friend and kohai; Rise is the girl of his dreams (and in the real world, a good friend who actually seems to like his jokes); Naoto, the detective who's serious demeanor clashes with his own, making her all the more fun to tease; Yukiko, the girl he'll probably never be as close to thanks to Chie and his own awkwardness, but cares about deeply; and Teddie, his charge, little brother, bear-thing, and the one person he truly feels solely responsible for.
His closest relationship is with Souji, his best friend. Together since the beginning, Yosuke dubbed them 'partners' early on. At first, this was in relation to the case for the most part; they'd made their promise to Teddie to find the murderer and they were going to solve it together, as a team. But as the case wore on, their numbers grew, and their friendship began taking shape into what would be the most important in Yosuke's life, the nickname stuck. In getting closer and working through the leftover ache of Saki's death, Yosuke is unique in that he takes Souji off his pedestal as leader from time to time. He finds him to be 'special', but being true equals is by far his priority. Partners, in the truest sense. Yosuke isn't content to simply act as a leech, pouring all his angst onto Souji without giving anything back in return. That may have been enough for him once, but not now; not when he realizes what it's like to truly have a friend.
All those friendships, all that growth, it all amounts to a teenager on the cusp of adulthood scratching at the surface of who he really is and what he really wants. Things aren’t as bad as they used to be. He has genuine friends now, ones that know who he is and like him anyway. It opens his eyes to the possibility that working and working at making people like him isn’t the necessity he thought it was; that maybe people might actually like him. What a concept! Although he still has a long ways to go and many maturity hurdles to jump before he really gets there, he is getting there. Slowly but surely.
AMNESIA'D!: While under the amnesia's effects, Yosuke will be reverting back to his personality at the very beginning of the initial P4 title. This means that he will be much more shelled off, fake, superficial, and unaccepting of himself. He will balk at the idea of getting very serious with anyone, and he will jump at anything that catches his interest and relieves him of his boredom on even the basest of levels. He will not remember Souji, Saki, any of his other friends, or even his parents. His level of responsibility will be at an all time low and his self interest at an all time high. The capacity to grow into a better person will be there, as it always was, but it will be heavily shrouded in immaturity and a lack of self awareness.
SAMPLES;
THREAD LINKS:
(1) (2) (3)
QUESTIONNAIRE: Your character must answer the following questions.
Introduce yourself in 70 words or less.
My name's Hanamura Yosuke, I'm Japanese and I live in Inaba, but I'm from Tokyo initially. Small town life isn't really my thing I guess, but the people can be really cool if you find the right ones. I also work in a department store for my dad, which is kind of a drag but it's better than school. ... Is that 70 words yet?
Are you superstitious? Why or why not?
Not really... superstitions are for little kids and people who don't know any better. But I guess I've learned that sometimes it's worth checking out the weirder stuff, just in case. The world can be pretty weird, too, if you really look.
Think of the last person who you know that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give up one year of yours. Do you do it? Why or why not?
In a heartbeat, yeah. What's to explain? I'd give her a whole day and lose 24 years if I could.
Is murder ever a justifiable act?
I... don't know. It depends so much on the situation. If you're even the slightest bit uncertain, no, of course not, but if you know for a fact and if you don't act, more people will be hurt... I know it's not really the PC thing to say, but I think that is justifiable, yeah.
What is one thing you like about yourself and one thing you dislike?
Um... well, I like to think I'm pretty reliable? I mean, if push comes to shove and it's on me to get something done, I'm pretty good at stepping up. On the flip side, I really wish people could see that. I get the feeling people read me as immature and not someone they can count on, because I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life yet. I guess I don't like how unfocused I am.
If you go back to one point in time to give advice to yourself, when would you go and what would you say?
Back when I was moving to Inaba, when things were really crappy... I think I would've told myself to stop wallowing so much and look around. I judged everyone before even giving them a chance. The people here are actually pretty cool, and I could've saved myself a lot of grief if I actually took a chance on them then instead of waiting.
Is it possible for guys and girls to be just friends?
I guess, TECHNICALLY, but it's really hard for girls to get their guy friends' jokes!! No seriously though, girls can be great, funny, and totally there for you, but there's just something special about the bond two guys can have. Same with two girls, I guess. You just know each other's brains better, and you can be totally yourself. I don't know how else to explain it.
How do you know what true love is?
I think it's when you care so much about someone, you put them first above yourself without even having to think about it. I mean, that's just what I think. I'm not actually sure I've ever had 'true love'. I figure for it really be 'true love', it would have to be mutual, right?
"Money can't buy happiness." True or false, and why?
Nah, it can't. The people who hang around because you can cover lunch aren't really your friends. Real friends might still let you buy stuff for them, but they'll stick around even if you can't. That said, money can still buy a LOT of cool stuff and I wouldn't say no to it... y'know, if you're offering!
