Description
Character and artwork snow--drop
Name:
Okamura, Yuu
Age:
26
Birthday:
June 5th
Gender:
Male: he/him | they/them
Height:
6’2’’ | 188cm
Weight:
152lbs | 69kg
Personality:
At first glance, Yuu sports a polite, kind personality. He is a warm-hearted person who puts others and their needs first and does what he can to help if he is asked to do so. He is a peacemaker and tends to calm conflict if it ever arises, keeping a cool front and a reasonable mind. In general, Yuu is a nice guy who doesn’t mind keeping other people company.
HOWEVER, THIS IS, IN FACT, A LIE! HE IS… TWO-FACED!!!!!!!! WOW!
In reality, Yuu is… a bitter, cold, and cowardly man. Emphasis on ‘cowardly’! He is scared of his own shadow! Lol!
It’s not like he’s a bad person, but his true self is more blunt, irritable, and impulsive. He doesn’t think before he does things, and if caught, he will spin it around to make it look like he either meant to do whatever stupid thing he did or pretend it was an accident when it, in fact, spawned from his own idiocy. Not to mention, he is quick to judge people and situations before properly accessing them, be it in his own mind or out loud with his mouth if he is comfortable around you.
He is also severely critical of himself, in both his own esteem and the work he does. He will keep pushing forward until he is satisfied with his work, and it can lead to him overworking or exerting himself if he goes too far. A friend of his has rubbed off on him in this front.
Yuu used to be highly fight avoidant in his teenage years after an event left him afraid of conflict, but recently he has learned to face conflict despite his cowardly tendencies; both in physical fights and verbal ones. He acquired the Skill To De-escalate Situations and He Isn’t Sure How To Feel About That. If you need help with something, he will know what to do to help you.
Aside from his own downfalls, Yuu is incredibly loyal to his friends, comrades, and students. He takes his relationships seriously and will do his utmost to maintain them if he manages to create a bond with someone. That being said, he is a loser with like three people he is close to so like lmao. Overall he is a kind person, but he doesn’t believe he is or is capable of being one despite showing clear traits that he has grown. Bro he’s working on it.
Teaches: Fashion
Class: 0-G
Likes:
Dislikes:
Bugs
Spiders
Scary Things
Thunder/lightning
Bio:
Yuu grew up in a family of wealth. He was pampered by his caretakers, and did not have to work for much in his childhood- he had an ego above the clouds as a child, and would boast his wealth to anyone nearby. He was quite rude and snobbish, and his only meaningful relationship back then was with his older sister, Naomi, as his parents were busy with their jobs and seldom had time to visit home.
She was the reason he eventually stopped acting high-and-mighty, calling him out when he was being mean-spirited; he cut the behavior out entirely during the middle of junior high school, and tried to be a better person for her.
However, it didn’t go unsaid that Naomi was the preferred child between the two. Whenever his parents did come home, they would barely recognize his presence in the house and only speak in depth to his sister. This caused a bitter and sour sort of jealousy to bubble within him. No matter how hard he tried, he could never get his parents to acknowledge him in the same way as Naomi.
This caused a rift in their relationship. Yuu’s mean behavior seeped back in due to not knowing how to handle the jealousy and not knowing how to communicate how he was feeling. Eventually, this led to a huge fight between the two siblings. Naomi stormed out on him, and he felt a rush of guilt, planning to apologize once she came back.
She did not come back. In fact, she was announced missing after 24 hours, and a search party was issued to find her. Luckily, she was alive, but she was severely injured, having been presumed to have gotten into a hit-and-run accident. She was put into a medically induced coma, and Yuu’s parents stopped coming home entirely unless it was to visit her in the hospital. It was a slap to his face.
He coped in his high-school years through singing and dancing. It was a light that he desperately held onto. Music always gave him a sense of comfort, and he in turn wanted to give that feeling to others, as well as to generally better himself; for his sister. He wanted to turn a new leaf, and did his remaining high-school years at a performing arts academy.
Unfortunately, despite gaining new experiences, he did not keep up with it. While he had a small following through his idol work, he started doing less and less, and became entirely inactive in the field. The light that ignited slowly diminished, and he was no longer passionate. He had trouble figuring out what he truly wanted. So, he graduated, and pursued a regular education through a regular university.
He did modeling gigs on the side, designed in his free time, and did some variety content with his much-more successful friend. While the variety stuff was met with good success, that was the extent for him. His success was dependent on that friend, and once she left Japan to pursue bigger career opportunities, he stopped doing much idol-stuff all together. He’d still do modeling here and there, but it wasn’t often and it wasn’t enough.
Finally, his sister woke up in his second year of university. He always held deep guilt for what happened to her, and he actively decided to become her caretaker rather than let their housekeepers or whatever help her get back on track. With him caring for her and getting through university, he lost focus on any career path he had in mind in order to ‘make up what he did’ to her, too focused on trying to mend their relationship as well as help her get back on her feet.
He graduated university and eventually got back into modeling consistently, now that he wasn’t as busy (and with the encouragement of his sister), and continues to do so today. He was sort of drifting through life with not much purpose or any goal in his mind… but then a job offer came through to him from an SIA Alumni, Duong.
He now works as a secretary for the relatively well-known fashion designer, and he managed to get a teaching job at said Alumni’s school as a designing teacher as well.
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Trivia:
Fluent in English, Japanese, ASL, and JSL.
Tends to mix up ASL and JSL though.
Learned ASL in childhood as his mother is hard of hearing and from the states so that’s the sign language she is most comfortable with.
Learned JSL with his sister after she regained upper body movement; this was still when she couldn’t speak very well after waking up from her coma. Now, she can speak OK, but they still use it with each other in normal circumstances.
Intermediate in Korean due to his best friend doing promotions in Korea; he ended up living with her and her girlfriend for a few years there.
Yuu is good at deescalating fights and defending himself.
He doesn’t exactly have proper training, but due to a variety of experiences in his Life, he’s built up a good skill set in terms of combat.
He’s naturally athletic at this point. He’s heavy lifting and constantly moving in his daily life, so it just happened.™
He tends to wear makeup and feminine clothing, and labels like ‘girl’ clothes or ‘boy’ clothes mean nothing to him. If he likes it, he will wear it/use it, basically. There is no rule or line for him when it comes to gender, he has literally 0 issues with his identity and what he loves.
His hobby is making bullet journals and using them to log his life. The stuff he writes is really emo and angsty and boring he will cry if you look in his journals don’t do it thanks.
He WILL SOB watching sappy movies. He will SOB even if it’s not that emotional. He will point at the TV. Tears rolling down his cheeks. Voice shaking. He will say, “T-t-t-t-the d-dog… found its way h-h-home-” (choking back sobs). Etc
He can play the piano. He’s been playing since he was a child.
He has two vertical moles on his left forearm. Like the : colon symbol.