Toot your own horn.... is THAT what the kids call it these days?

Name: Shinji Hasebe
Age: 17/Third year
Gender: Male
Birthday/Birthplace/Nationality: February 14th, Hirameki, Japanese

Clubs/Extracurricular activities: Founder and captain of bowling team
Occupation: Works at Golden Lane Bowling Alley
Weapon: An old baseball bat, later putting nails through it and eventually barb wire

Appearance: [img]http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm122/Deidara_the_clay_ninja/Anime%20Scientists/066.jpg[/img]
Generally wears button up shirts, khaki cargos, and casual shoes when his not in his school uniform. Typically his school bowling shirt if his got a game or just feels like it. He has a normal pair of perscription glasses he always wears and fiddles with when his nervous. When coming into combat its generally the same thing only with his hands taped up with athletic tape.

Personality/Backstory: A friendly sort who is fairly sociable when he wants to be. Shinji is a two handed style bowling prodigy in the making. Shinji grew up practically living in the bowling alley his parents own and run. Giving him ample time to develop a fairly unique two handed bowling style that delivers an incredibly fast ball that can hit the pocket 9 out of 10 times. Constantly winning local competitions and leagues until they barred him for being too good. The young man has aspirations of going pro straight out of high school and has sponsors anxiously waiting for that time. All said though, the pressures of Japanese society have left him forced to hide his biggest desire and truth about him.

When Shinji was little, he discovered a unique attraction not to women, but towards men. However around that same time, a man who lived near the house he grew up in was savagely beaten for reportedly being a homosexual. It left Shinji scarred and afraid to be honest about his feelings. What really doesn't help matters though is that he is considered by a very large percent of girls at the school to be a very worthy bachelor. Constantly hounded for dates and other activities Shinji quickly becomes incredibly shy and avoiding. Whenever a girl finally wrangles him into a date Shinji is usually shy, not very willing to do much. It all leads people at the school to think he just really tries hard to toy girls along. But the truth is of course much more painful for Shinji himself. 
Likes: Bowling, music and going to concerts, being around friends and teammates
Dislikes: The truth about himself, girls hounding him, splits of the 7-10, or the 4-6-7-10 variety

Persona: Phoenix
Arcana: Fortune
Skills: Bash, Rampage, Agi
Strengths/Weaknesses: Strong to Fire, weak to Ice