oH: Shouhei

•Just • Observant • Teamplayer • A hero•

WOULD-BE SELF

Someone who can pour their abilities for a greater good, being able to focus on both small details and the big picture. Become the pillar people look for and fight for/with them and not against them.

     His decisions are made with the heat of the moment and he sticks with them until the end, making him |headstrong| about anything he decides to do. Even though he can decide things on his own, people can get him to do something they want if they play their cards right, Shouhei is quite |oblivious| to some small details or even the whole picture so he’ll agree if the ideas are sugar coated. Whenever people do something that he doesn’t like or rub him the wrong way, he becomes |aggressive| towards them with his |quick temper| and can sometimes get into physical fights because of it. His aggressiveness is fleeting, and when he realizes what he’s done is wrong, he’ll apologize.

LIKES
+Miyu
+Fighting / Action
+Exploring
+Comic books
+Birds
+Dance
+Storms
+Spicy food
+Mysteries

DISLIKES
-Anyone who hurts their friends
-Senseless violence
-Cats
-Overly sweet stuff
-Silence
-Standing still for too long
-Dark places
-Weapons

STORY

TL;DR -

The first son of a family of four, Shouhei trained since early with his father, a karate athlete while his younger sister was taught ballet by their ballerina mother. Shaped to be a natural strong leader Miyu followed Shouhei around always having adventures with her, his future sidekick. Even though he was a very energetic kid always outside he had his quiet moments, reading books especially comic books. The heroic main roles always encouraged him to be better and protect others with his strength.

Growing up he drifted away from his sister. They were still close but not as close as when they were children. He also grew, but his childhood dream remained idly in wait in his heart. He was good in fighting and the power started to get used for the wrong ends. Hanging out with the wrong people he made some bad choices, becoming a bully at the pretence in his mind that he was doing the right thing, or so his friends told him.

Things were looking normal for him but as a fresh third year some students from his old school came for revenge. Beaten up as he was outnumbered he went to confront his friends about things he heard. They were tired of the facade and came clean to Shouhei, explaining how stupid he was for believing anything they said to be true. This didn't end well as the boy became aggressive, getting into yet another fight. Everything started to crumble as he realized he had become what he dispised most and even his sister seemed off. He wasn't protecting anyone... But he wanted to change that! He wanted to protect others, not hurt them.

    “I want to change!” he thought, thinking back to his child days, and wished with his whole heart.

    Shouhei was the first son of a french fighter and a japanese ballerina. They were young and passionate but due to an injury, the couple planned for their first child and there he was, a happy and energetic baby. Then a couple of years afterwards he got a precious new member of the family, a little sister named Miyu.

    Since very young, their father noticed the strong ambition of the boy and also noticed that as a baby, he tried to imitate his moves whenever he practiced his martial arts at home. The fighting style that he practiced was Karate, and so he decided to train Shouhei, just like his wife was teaching Ballet to Miyu.

Training him from such a tender age shaped shouhei to be a naturally strong person as well as a leader type for his sister who would follow him everywhere he went and he loved that. Growing up he kept his energy and started to pour it all into anything physical, especially anything related to nature and exploring. He’d take his younger sister to wherever he went to explore as kids, climb trees, cross rivers, etc. But he also had his own interests, and in his calm moments he would sit down and read comic books, seeing all these strong main characters really made his imagination flow and dream as any child should. He wanted to be just like that! A hero to protect those he loved, and Miyu his sidekick.

    But as they became teens, the two didn’t spend as much time together, which was sad for both of them. They were still extremely close but not like before, but that was normal, He was happy for Miyu, she was such a beautiful dancer, so pure and graceful… He started to call her ‘little dove’. Shouhei’s dreams from his child days were still present as well but he was starting to lose sight of them slightly as he became more talented in fighting. His fights and accomplishments caught the attention of many. One day after a match, some kids from his school actually went to talk to him- it wasn’t like Shouhei was a loner at school, many admired him since he was very social, but this particular meeting surprised him because he had never seen them before. The group of teens spoke with the boy into having him join them in ‘quests’. They had heard of the boy’s love for adventure and so on so it was easy to go around the subject. With a bit more convincing, Shouhei was happy to help with whatever they needed, it seemed interesting enough.

    Some time had passed and Shouhei was pretty happy with his new friends, so far they hadn’t run into too much trouble, but soon enough there was news of some ‘bad guys’ who had picked a fight with the group. The freckled boy wasn’t going to stand around having his friends in a pinch!! He had to help! And this situation repeated itself many times, having the adventurous boy involved in many fights where he was always victorious. Creating a reputation for himself that he was unaware of.

    Going into his first year in Seiyo academy he was parted from most of his friends, but many knew of his reputation even there. Many who knew avoided him, which confused Shouhei since he never saw himself as rude, but he was always going to hang out with his friends outside of school anyway. He spent his first year like this, more fights happened but never in school grounds. Second year was more evident that some didn’t like him, a lot of whispers and some ugly stares, but he didn’t care, he was only doing justice in his mind.

    One day, as a fresh third year he found himself ambushed outside of school grounds. He was upset and angry because these were people he fought before, who he saw as evil. But he was outnumbered this time and got beaten pretty badly, they weren’t stronger than him but there was something more… that and they worked as a team to defeat him- as if HE was the evil one. As he was lying there, the sudden sound of footsteps startled him but as he looked up he saw a crying girl. Sitting him, she offered to patch him up and then as she was doing so they talked- Shouhei was confused as to why they would come back, to which the girl responded that it was all wrong, neither part was right on fighting. But the boy was left to his own questions, only one word that the girl said didn’t leave his mind ‘wrong’. Did he…. Do something wrong?

Already patched up, he thanked the girl and walked back to the dorms to sleep over the situation. The next day he went to confront his friends, and they obliged and explained it was all the opposite of what they’d been telling him. They were done with all the bullying and decided to come clean to him and proceeded to laugh at how easily he bought their lies. Something inside Shouhei sunk and he stood there in disbelief- so all along, he was the villain? Something snapped inside him and another fight broke. This time, even outnumbered he managed to come out victorious, but did he really win? Frustrated he spent the next days training harder and spending his time alone with his thoughts.