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[color=d0477a][b]Name:[/b][/color] Hidekichi Mamai
[color=d0477a][b]Age:[/b][/color] 17
[color=d0477a][b]Physical Description:[/b][/color] [url=https://images2.imgbox.com/1d/92/9ei4ICxY_o.png]The biggest name in the art world you don't know.[/url] Not pictured, all the bandages and colorful smears on his hands.
[color=d0477a][b]Important items:[/b][/color]
   [b]'The Kit'[/b] - a series of small odds-and-ends Hidekichi keeps on hand for whenever inspiration hits.[list]
[*]Swiss Army knife
[*]Tube of [i]WE-STICK[/i] brand superglue
[*]Fine-tip permanent marker
[*]At least 1 palm-sized chunk of malleable material (clay, wood, etc) at any given time[/list]   [b]Essentials[/b] - wallet, phone, housekeys
   [b]Deki-Ma Keychain[/b] - a mass-produced piece of merch modeled after one of Deki-Ma's most popular pieces, a chromatic koala bear hugging a tree that had grown to incorporate it. The keychain is, obviously, just cheap plastic. 
[color=d0477a][b]Short Bio:[/b][/color] Hidekichi grew up poor and lonely. His parents worked meaningless jobs with extreme hours that never paid well, which reflected in how they were treated by neighbors and acquaintances. He wasn't able to make friends in school, but the fact his baby sister Tsuzuri couldn't either got to him more. He tried to be there for her to compensate, trying to be her friend when no one else would, but they were too far apart in age to be in the same school. So, Hidekichi got creative.

It started with simple dolls, little figures made of foraged sticks, faces doodled on rocks, but at an early age he began to make new sets of friends for her. If nothing else it made her happy, having something she could take with her to feel less alone. He never gave up, though, wanting to make something he thought would be 'worth' keeping. As his interest in crafting grew, so did his skills and his range, leading to him taking up sculpting, whittling, papercraft, even sewing, his scope steadily increasing from tchotchkes to actual statues and other such things. He had a knack. It was just a hobby, something he kept within the walls of his home, until one day his mom decided to take some of his more cutesy projects to work with her.

People [i]loved[/i] them. She asked if he could make more, and he did. People asked her if they could buy them, so she started selling. Word spread, more people were interested, Hidekichi's skill improved, so pieces of higher quality were shown off and bought, and it all sorta snowballed from there. Hidekichi rode the pseudo-popularity, beginning to sneak his pieces out to the public eye, the air of mystery as to who this sculptor could be only fueling the interest. Known only as "Deki-Ma", he had become something of a sensation before he even entered highschool.

Of course, fame was never what Hidekichi wanted out of this. He was ecstatic that people enjoyed what he made and how it helped his family's financial trouble, but as Deki-Ma grew from an underground nobody to a sought-after auteur, it all became too [i]corporate[/i] for him. Now he had to fill out jobs (delivered anonymously from the few points of contact in the world aware of Hidekichi's identity), and those jobs didn't carry the same spark as it had when he was younger, when it was simple fun to make his sister happy. He still does what he has to, of course, not wanting to do away with Deki-Ma despite his growing resentment towards the persona, and he does like to challenge himself with grander projects. But his passion for art, the side of it all that filled his heart with joy, was still rooted in those ugly, ramshackle things that Tsuzuri brought with her to school.
[color=d0477a][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Hidekichi is a bombastic sort, the kinda kid that wears his heart on his sleeve and has no real shame in how other people see him. He's loud and tends not to think things through, usually landing him in a lot of trouble wherever he goes. While everything about him - the way he acts, how he dresses, etc - screams [i]'delinquent'[/i] or [i]'punk'[/i], Hidekichi holds no malice towards anyone or anything and only wants the best out of life, for him and everyone around him. Though his thoughts spiral this way and that, making it hard for him to focus on much for very long, unless it's one of his little projects which spring up just as fast as anything else that comes to his mind. The one thing he truly despises is the idea of "perfection"; he argues against the very idea of it, hates when people use it to justify treating others, or themselves, like shit, and holds great value in the imperfections in life... sometimes to his own detriment.
[color=d0477a][b]Skills:[/b][/color] Hidekichi's most prevalent skill is his artistry. From the ripe age of 10 he's been obsessed with all manner of handcrafts, primarily sculpting - creating things out of clay, stone, wood, marble, and so on. He's something of a prodigy, his expertise increasing rapidly in the few years since he began, and at his age to boot! Pretty much anything he gets his hands on he can work into a competent piece of art, from erasers and chewed gum to gemstones and solid metal. Though he much prefers "feeling it out", seeing where his heart takes him as he works instead of following any rigorous standards a sculptor of his caliber tends to be associated with.
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