Despite how bad its been, the last year has been pretty good for Shun growth wise. At 184 Cm and 75 Kg he cuts and intimidating figure, at times perhaps looking a little older than most kids his age. A strict training and diet regiment keeps in impressive physical condition, though he'd admit this is more out of habit than anything else.

His hair is never brushed, a loose mop of brown that remains (mostly) tangle free by sheer force of will and frequent haircuts alone. He isn't much for high fashion, so outside of school his wardrobe largely consists of jeans, T-shirts, or the occasional nice sweater when some sense of formality is required.

Shun is a deeply frustrated person at the moment, which unfortunately makes him deeply frustrating to be around. He is abrasive, blunt, and casually disrespectful to pretty much anything with a pulse, but students who are particularly successful in sports clubs are lightening rods for this behavior. He is somewhat more neutral to those who prefer less physically active hobbies, though can still be prone to rude or dismissive comments.

Despite his roughness, you'd be hard pressed to find someone more personally disciplined than him. If Shun decides something is to be done, it gets done even if he has to work himself to death to do it. Failure of any sort terrifies Shun, not that he would ever admit this. He is the first in line to beat himself up over any little mistake, sometimes he's the ONLY person in that line. And while an actual apology is never going to happen, if Shun feels he owes you something you're getting paid back in spades. And god help you if you feel like he doesn't owe you anything.

He recently discovered he is a fan of quote 'nerdy crap' like role playing games and fantasy novels. Particularly anything with a hard boiled detective type or characters of similar disposition. He would sooner die in a house fire than freely admit this to anyone.

Shun spent a great deal of his early life living in small crapped apartments with his mother, Kunimitsu Ai. To put it indelicately, Ai had been a party girl when she was a teenager and Shun was an unplanned wake up call. As such, Shun really has no clue who his biological father is and isn't about to ask for a list of suspects.

Ai worked hard to give Shun as stable a life as she could manage, working whatever menial job she could get her hands on. The downside being that Shun spent much of his time out of school at a local dojo that a friend of his mother's worked at. At first, his attendance was really nothing more than glorified free babysitting, the Kancho Ito Daichi being too soft hearted not to give Ai a break. The fact that new students would be absolutely befuddled by the sight of a toddler haphazardly attempting to mimic their teachers kata was also a plus.

But, by the time he was ten Shun was more or less a full fledged student and was technically proficient enough to keep up with students three time his age. But, being ten, he really couldn't spar with most of the other students who...you know. Actually WERE three times his age, and thus much stronger. So when Daichi suggested he try a local youth competition, Shun jumped at the chance.

Shun wishes he could say he dominated, but that would be a lie. He came 30th out of the whole showing, but the sheer joy he felt from sparring with someone on equal footing lit a fire in him. Training before had been a silly past time while he waited for his mom to pick him up after work, now it was just...more.

The next two years saw more competitions, Shun steadily raising in the rankings each time until he was placing in the top three consistently. Sure, it was the youth league and all, but it was the center of his universe and for four or five times a year he felt truly alive!

It was around this time his mother met his eventual step father, Tosaka Yoshi. Tosaka was a marginally successful pediatrician who sometimes donated his time volunteering as onsite medical services for various sporting competitions, mostly as an excuse to watch his daughter's, Yuki, track events. His wife had passed away early in Yuki's life and the two families rather happily winning each other over. Yuki in particular being rather happy to have a little brother to dote on, even if she was only two years older. Not that Shun would complain, being a little starved for familial affection since his mom worked all the time. Shun was barely thirteen when the two finally decided to marry, though truthfully it was far more a formality than anything else.

The next year was without a singular doubt the happiest year of Shun's life. They moved into a modest home which quickly became a monument to the kids various sporting accomplishments, the greatest of which being Yuki getting offered a chance to participate in a scouting camp for the 2020 Olympic games! A fact she would tease her little brother about to no small degree.

There was zero down in Shun's mind Yuki would eventually make the cut and join Japan's Track team (50m Sprint if he was forced to take a guess) and he was NOT about to be the only kid in the family not to go. So Shun knuckled down on his training like never before, aiming to represent Japan in the 67kg Kumite division come hell or high water.

Motivated by sibling pettiness, Shun began a winning streak like nothing he'd managed before. Any JKF (Japan Karate Federation) Event he could attend, he did, and he tore through it like a hurricane. The only thing holding him back was his mom's requirement he keep his grades up to compete. But a few sleepless nights of studying and make up tests were a small price to pay.

Then the whole world went to shit and he got injured. While leaving a tournament a poorly maintained concrete step gave way underneath him and sent him tumbling down a few steps before his leg cracked against the hand rail. The terror of what happened hit long before the pain ever have.

Leg injuries are a death sentence to any athlete, Period. And while Shun wasn't exactly a medical professional, he knew a bad break when he saw one.

He doesn't remember what happened next, but the next time he was conscious of his surroundings he was in the hospital. After a brief but intense panic attack, he managed to get his step-dad to explain what had happened and immediately felt infinitely worse. The bone was shattered a few inches above the ankle, the doctor calling it a comminuted fracture and suggesting and ORIF. Essentially, they'd screwed, bolted and hammered what remained of his tibia into something vaguely resembling what it was before. When Shun finally managed to ask how long it would take before they could remove all the things they put in him he received no answer.

The next few months crushed what little optimism remained in Shun after that, the young man able to do very little beyond attend school and do his physical therapy. His mood soured from being immobile for so long; the gentle teasing of his step sister or the general goofiness of Yoshi doing little to help and sometimes wearing his patience thin, though tempers rarely rose too high. He mostly just tried to avoid them and his mom; their attempts at pretending things were still the same growing increasingly irritating and their concern just making him feel helpless. During this time, he filled what hours he could with browsing whatever he could on the internet. Fantasy series (especially bad ones) seemed to work the best to keep his mind off of things, he even joined a text based role play site for a while but was banned for poor behavior.

When it finally came off eight months later though, Shun finally broke. His range of motion in his left ankle wasn't even a tenth of what it used to be. He could walk and run just fine, but as it stood he'd be lucky to break the top ten at even the most amateur of tournaments. The helplessness he had felt over the last few months finally boiling over into a bitter fury.

Arguments became a weekly event in the Tosaka-Kunimitsu house hold shortly there after, eventually evolving into almost daily events. Yuki got the worst of it, the two siblings being barely able to exchange more then three words with screaming themselves hoarse. After four months of this, a consensus was reached. Shun wasn't going to get better, not here in Tokyo anyway. So they could all be miserable together and get through this as a family, or Shun could leave.

Surprising no one, the three had Shun's bags packed and a taxi ready for him by the time he got home from school that day. He stopped only to get an explanation of where he was going before leaving, not needing to be convinced that he'd be better off anywhere else.

Shun currently lives with his step uncle and aunt, both of whom are spared from his ire by virtue of the trio doing everything in their power to avoid each other. His mom, step father and step-sister all live in Tokyo. This arrangement is mostly an experiment by his parents to see if getting some distance from his home town (and, more pressingly, his sister flourishing track career) will mellow out his anger issues. Neither side is particularly optimistic about the results will be.

He wants to compete at the Olympic level in martial arts. Failing that, he wants ANYTHING that could fill that void in his life. He isn't sure if he wants to be able to be with his family again, there is a lot of anger and resentment on both sides there. Some of it undeserved, a lot of it not if you ask him. But...it would be nice just to be calm around them again.

None. That is probably for the best.

He keeps his smart phone and wallet on him and little else. His uncle lets him use his old bike to get around town. He keeps a laptop at ‘home’ that is filled with pirated PDFs for tabletop games and write ups for character ideas in those systems. Never find these things if you value your life.

While his vision is mostly fine, Shun does need his glasses for reading text and seeing far distances at full clarity.

When it is very cold outside, the fixtures in Shun's leg feel uncomfortable and cause him to limp slightly.

For those who carefully observe Shun, they will notice that every Wednesday he makes a point to have salty or fatty junk foods. This is his diet's cheat day.