[hider=Hoshitani Yuuga]
[u][b][color=00aeef]Name:[/color][/b][/u] Hoshitani Yuuga (星谷 優雅)
[u][color=00aeef][b]Age:[/b][/color][/u] 17
[u][color=00aeef][b]Gender:[/b][/color][/u] Male
[u][color=00aeef][b]Appearance:[/b][/color][/u] [url= https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COu9o1kW8AAdEC8.png]The prettiest boy.[/url]
[indent]Simply put, Yuuga is really, really, ridiculously good looking. Equipped with a natural height and a flawless skincare regime, the 183cm tall boy is quite the dazzling sight to behold when he strolls down the hallways. His naturally black hair has been grown to a length slightly above his shoulders. (If anyone were to watch him for an extended period of time, they’d notice that he seems to swish it around super frequently for a dude.) He occasionally ties it into a low ponytail, for kyudo practice mostly. Alternates between glasses and contacts, depending on what he's doing and what look he's trying to pull off. Every morning his uniform is meticulously arranged to look casual yet classy, the top two buttons of his shirt left open and his tie in a loose knot below his collar. His sleeves are left unrolled though. He’d rather not tread that line between looking casual and looking like a delinquent. (He has a reputation to uphold, after all.) Yuuga sometimes wears a light, woollen jumper over his school shirt.[/indent]
[u][color=00aeef][b]Personality:[/b][/color][/u]
[indent]Years of active socialization has honed Yuuga’s amiability to a sharp and shining point. He’s laid-back, that’s for sure. Charming too. Classmates will find that he’s a boy who smiles a lot more easily than others (“No one likes a sadsack, right?”), more willing to help with small favors, and all around just a swell guy. He’s likable, to the point where it’s kinda eerie sometimes.

It’s not an uncommon thing to find that Yuuga is a bit… too much at times. People who aren’t swept away by his charm view him as a narcissistic try-hard, some kind of faker behind that dashing veneer. The try-hard part’s not entirely untrue. In the name of preserving his reputation, Yuuga will more often than not go out of his way to do the more undesirable tasks people push onto him. He wouldn’t hurt anyone though, no way. Small tasks, like staying behind to help with festival preparations or filling in for the soccer club. Things like that, he can do. If you have an annoying chore to do and subtly mention how good it’d make him look, Yuuga will dive into that work with the grace of a swan. In other words, play it right and he’ll be a total pushover.

The narcissist part is far from the truth though. Sure, he’s petty and image absorbed. Sure, he gives his hair a touch up whenever he passes a reflective surface. But Yuuga doesn’t think that highly of himself. He knows his faults, knows that all his popularity came from excessive amounts of behind the scenes work. He knows that unlike the natural extroverts and good-lookers in his clique, he needs to work hard to maintain his status. Because in high school, in this world of all-encompassing social media, reputation is everything. Average losers who don’t conceal their mediocrity behind smiles and sociable personalities fall behind. That can’t happen. Yuuga won’t let that happen.[/indent]
[u][b][color=00aeef]Skills:[/color][/b][/u]
[indent]Extensive knowledge of skincare products and routines. Barely above average grades and below average athletic ability, much to his chagrin. Godlike selfie game. Quite detail oriented. Proficient in kyudo, having done it since middle school, though his skills are nothing awe-inspiring. Fairly good at household chores such as laundry and cooking.[/indent]
[u][b][color=00aeef]Equipment:[/color][/b][/u] 
[indent]Smartphone, usually in his pants pocket. Apart from the standard school supplies, his schoolbag contains his glasses case with cleaning cloth, lip balm, comb, and selfie stick.[/indent]
[u][b][color=00aeef]Soul Arts:[/color][/b][/u]
[indent]Grand Reversal: His Soul Art is inserted into the base of his neck, just above the sternum. Yuuga gains the ability to control or negate friction within a 10 meter radius. Applications of this ability can include making it easier to climb walls or rock faces, sending charging enemies slipping past, and making a dynamic and flashy entrance with Yuuga gracefully sliding into the scene.[/indent]
[u][color=00aeef][b]Brief Backstory:[/b][/color][/u] 
[indent]Yuuga was born to an infuriatingly average family, an only child with a stay-at-home mother and a salary-man father. Elementary school was… fine. He went through the usual motions, making a reasonable number of friends, trying out hobbies, thinking about girls. Nothing exceptional, nothing terrible. Life was a stagnant, horizontal line on a plane. Nothing ever stood out. He wouldn't have been able to accept it if he never became more than what he was destined to always be, if the rest of his life was a death sentence of relentless mediocrity. So he rewrote himself.

A look in the mirror told him that he was pretty alright-looking. With some hard work he could turn it, himself, into something spectacular. He started grooming himself, taking care of his diet and face. He joined the kyudo club. He started talking more, laughing to jokes that weren’t all that funny but made the others feel like laughing was the right thing to do. And it worked. People, girls even, started noticing him. Eating lunch with him. Inviting him to group chats and karaoke hangouts. It was everything he’d dreamed. So he continued the hard work.

By the time high school rolled around, Yuuga had successfully cemented his place in the popular cliques. Keeping up with social media was the only sensible thing to do in his position so joining Strange Gospel was a given. Of course, he’d dropped it once all that creepy stuff started happening. But with the disappearances connected to that cursed app happening around him, Yuuga can’t help be feel spooked. Already, he’d heard news of distant friends of friends going missing. Would he or someone he knew be next?[/indent]
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