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Persona - The True Self

Rikimaru was in shock, there we're so many people. Maybe there wasn't and it was just more than he was used too. All things being equal, any more than a classroom was more than he was used to.

There was a feeling that everyone was staring at him, he knew what wasn't true, his eyes told him so. It just didn't help they nervous feeling he had. He'd often ask himself what did he have to be scared of, but he could never found an answer.

With a heavy sigh Rikimaru started walking around the mall. Going in and out of shops and checking out what was inside. They were mostly clothing stores. That wasn't all bad, a good pair of jeans and a decent shirt never hurt anyone and he was always in the market for a new mask.

The more he wondered around the more he wanted to play his guitar. He knew that back home in Kadena, on the Air Force base and around town it was much more Americanized than here but what extent he didn't know. Did they look down on people playing music in public? He wasn't playing for money or anything, just cause he wanted to, could that be such a bad thing?

He was gonna find the answer to this particular quandary. When he found a place to sit, he slung the soft bag in his back that contained his guitar off his back and pulled out his flat top box.

This particular one had nylon strings, fit for his style of classical, flamenco, and folk. With a quick strum his worries seemed to flutter away. He moved his bag off to the side and ensured it was closed and started to play.



His hands moved expertly from one string to the next, never missing a note. Smile formed under that mask if his, and a big one at that. It took all of ten seconds for his eyes to shut and get lost in the music. Losing track of the people and the noise or anything else that was going on around him.

With each passing stike of the strings, Rikimaru couldn't help be happy, trouble and worries floated away. Yet sadly like all great things,the song and his playing had to come to an end. The remedy was simple enough, just play another song and he intended to. For for now though, he just wanted to revel in one of his favorite songs, the Malaguena.

He looked at his guitar and was just happy to have it and be able to play. It was then he noticed a small gather of people around him. He didn't like them looming at him all that much. He just ignored it and played another one.

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Above Abe Ramen
26/4/15

"A knocking, wrapping at my chamber door." Rikimaru thought to himself as he heard knocking on the other side of his bedroom door. "I guess everyone up and moving now." Rikimaru finished his thought.

"Its open, come on in." Rikimaru shouted as he place his father's acoustic in the ground. He had nicer and better playing guitars than this one was by far his favorite. It was old and beat up, scratches everywhere but to Rikimaru, that's what made it sound so good.

As he sat his guitar down he picked up his mask and put it on. This one was modeled after Subzero. He never really got the cosplay fascination but he was grateful for it.

He was in the process of tying the mask on when by the door opened revealing Hus aunt and uncle. They as uncomfortable as he was. Still he was the guest here so he felt the need to try and put them at easy. "Please, please cone in." Rikimaru said trying to usher them to his bed where they could sit.

As they sat on the bed Rikimaru took a seat in a chair that sat at his table."Uhh... Rikimaru kun, you've been for a couple of days now and you haven't left your room. We are concerned." His aunt spoken with a worried time, unsure of how proceed.

"Awwww no!" Rikimaru thought to himself. "There gonna ask me to go out some out where." He said in his head... He was right too.

"It's Golden Week here and it could be a great time for you to meet people your own age." She was careful if every word unsure if how he would take it. They weren't his parents and they never had kids. This as new to them as it was Rikimaru.

"We'd like you to go out an see the town. Maybe try to make some friends? We got you a ticket to the amusement park and some money." She was again nervous by what his response night be.

The uncle was just as bad. They seemed to want to do we just unsure of how to deal with Rikimaru.

Rikimaru didn't want to go at all, but looking at these people who seemed to care, he couldn't say no.

He smiled behind his mask before speaking. He did his best to put then at easy. What smiling behind a mask would help he didn't know but it made him feel better.

"I'll head out this afternoon and have a look around town, I promise. I'll work out, get cleaned up and help you in the shop and then I'll head out, promise." Rikimaru stood up and bowed, reiterating his promise.

There was massive relief on their faces. This might be easier than they thought it would be, having Rikimaru around.

True to his word he finished working out, got cleaned up and was helping I'm the ramen shop. The only addendum, was a different mask There had to be trust built up and to do that he had to stay true to his word. It was if truth be told a ploy to be able to get a way with more later on. It would also help his standing with his new found family. They seemed to care so what was the harm in it?

As time passed Rikimaru only spoke to ask what was needed to do next. His aunt and uncle were too happy to have the help. Even going as far as to offer an additional reward on top of the promised money. After thanking them, he was off as promised with one of his acoustic guitar. Only telling them that he wouldn't be out late.

It took him a while and if he was smart he would have ask for direction but he found the mall, it wasn't the amusement park but the day was young. Hopefully today was gonna be a good day.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Well if Tate doesn't do anything I'll make a post to kill this arc. Expect that this week end.

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Persona - The True Self

Rikimaru Elsworth.

Gender: Male
Age: 15
Appearance:

Standing at 5'6 and weighing about 145 pounds, he has lean, athletic frame. When speaking he has a soft and smoky voice.
Arcana: sun

Personality: He is by nature a kind a peaceable person. Yet at the same time, he is not afraid of fighting to defend himself, or those he calls his friends. It wouldn't hard to see him as the protective type. He noted for never saying anything more than he has to. Partly because he's shy and partly because of the bullying.

Rikimaru is two different people at home and in the public. At home he is an outgoing and loving person. In public he is quite and he does his level best to never show that anything ever bothers him.

Rikimaru looks intimidating and older than he is and he knows it. While at heart he is a big softy. That won't keep from using that intimidation to his advantage. If only that would have worked where used to live.
Iff there is one thing he does care about more than training and his family. Its playing the guitar. A product of spending so much time alone when he was younger.

Rikimaru for faults,has a need to do the right thing. Something his parents taught him when he was a small child. Even he wants nothing to do the with situation, Rikimaru will do what he thinks is the right thing, even if it gets him into trouble.

Equipment/Skills:

Weapons:
Battle Axe Gutiar.


School uniform. While he doesn't really care for the uniform, he does try to take care of it. Often wearing it with his sleeves rolled up or as casual as he can.

Weekend/off days attire:


Highly skilled in hand to hand combat and some weapons.

Able to speak both Japanese and English fluently.

More than decent player of flamenco guitar and a few other styles.

Background: Born to two American parents in the military, he carries a distinctly white appearance. He borrows greatly from his fathers genetic line in terms if his looks. It was his mother that gave him is his once cheerful disposition and name. His father an American from South Carolina. His mother was born in Japan but was moved to America when she was but a baby.

Born and raised in Okinawa's Kadena Air Base. The American Air Force Base. It wasn't until he was in his teens that he figured out he had been living in two different worlds. An American world on base, and the Japanese world just out side the walls of the base.

Behaviorally he is almost a perfect mesh of his parents. A gruff almost angry exterior the covers a very soft inside. His father's American gruffness and his mothers soft heart. He is much a guy and doesn't make much apologise for it.

When he was a boy, Rikimaru got beaten up for the first time by some bullies. His Father with a mind that this wouldn't happened again, enrolled him martial arts classes. Rikimaru took to them like a duck to water. He was a natural and loved every second of it. As time progressed, the styles became more and more brutal. It wasn't until he came to learn the ways of an art barely known that he truly excelled. "The dragon of many faces." A very brutal style that allowed him to fight more than one person at a time.

As he got better the bullies started to leave him alone but they were always there, always looking for a reason or a means to get away with picking on Rikimaru. As a result he never really had many friends. During this lonesome time, he learned to play his fathers old guitar. He picked up pretty quick, it was a comfort that was he better at something other than fighting.

It wasn't until his parents still members of the U.S military were called to Afghanistan. Not wanting to remove their child from highschool and knowing that Afghanistan was no place for child they left Rikimaru in the care of some close friends and neighbors.

The neighbor thing didn't exactly plan out very as a few weeks later Rikimaru was jumped by a gang. It took every bit of them to beat him into submission. Rikimaru saw a poor child being humiliated and what he could to stop them. It was a nasty fight that left him much worse for wear. He was a very good fighter but there is only so much one person can do when the odds are so stacked against you.

It took him awhile to get over what had happened, Still training as much as could but always alone.  He finished the school year at home. He wasn't safe there and he knew it. On the bright side, he had plenty of time to play the guitar and train.

After a while his parents moved him into an apartment above a Ramen Bar that was owned by Rikimaru's aunt and uncle in Warakuma. Most people thought he was crazy or the like for the lack of talking or emoting on public.

but it was still better than everyone giving him those pitiful looks. Those looks hurt more than anything. Still a fresh start in a new place should be perfect for him. For the first time in such a long time he was excited to go to school.

Persona:

Helios, The Sun G-d
"I am Helios... Bearing the ancient sun, I am the one who violates the night! I shall become your loyal chariot!"

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

So uh, what's gonna happen here?

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I'm open to changing most anything. Just send a pm and we cab take it from there.

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Blah blah blah I can't get right.