<div class="floatright">(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/ao-haru-ride/images/d/d9/Kou_Mabuchi_anime.png/revision/latest?cb=20140716162529&amp;path-prefix=es)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Ryuuto Yukimura<br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Japanese<br/><br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong>His short black hair is part naturally messy, part perm. He is 5'9" and weighs 60 kg. Ryuu doesn't do much exercise besides jogging every morning so he keeps a slim, athletic figure. He doesn't have any tattoos but he does have a two inch scar from a surgery he had on his knee. He walks around with an expression that looks like he'd rather be anywhere else but at the place he was at, especially when he is at school. He carries around an old cellphone strap on his belt; a T-Rex that he got from a childhood friend many years ago.<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><br/><strong>Are you willing to swap minds with a character whose gender is opposite of your own?:</strong>yes<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Ryuu despises the everyday hassle of going to school, but he makes the effort to go just because that was what he was expected to do. He does just enough to skate by and fly under the radar, maintaining his grades high enough so people don't think he is stupid but low enough so other people and teachers don't have ridiculously high standards from him, but he accidentally lets out sparks of brilliance whenever he doesn't pay attention to what he says. He could probably be one of the class's smart people, but he'd rather just float by undetected and left alone. On the outside, he seems cold and distant, and he is for various reasons, but on the inside, if someone could get him to confide in him/her, he could be sincere and kind-hearted. He doesn't wish any ill will towards anyone, it's just he doesn't want to make any bonds out of the fear that they'd just be broken and he would be left alone, yet again.<br/><br/>Ryuu likes walking aimlessly, without knowing where he is heading or any plans. He likes going to shady parts of town to talk to strangers just so he could have conversations without really investing in the other person. He goes to random hook-ups and parties that allow anyone to just walk inside for the same reason. He knows that this doesn't help, but it's like a drug and a poison. Everytime he is at home by himself, he feels like he is going down a never-ending spiral, lying on his bed feeling short of breath.<br/><br/>Some students have seen him hang around with shady people, so they associate him with them which provided another reason for them to avoid him, which didn't bother him.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Ryuu had a relatively happy childhood. He lived with his family that consisted of a father, a mother and an older brother. Everything seemed to go well until one day, he heard his parents fighting and then every week another fight happened, and then the fights started to happen more frequently until finally they filed for divorce. His older brother went with his father and Ryuu went with his mother. Before his father and older brother left, his older brother left him with the words, "Be strong for Mom and always protect her." Ryuu took this to heart and started making sure he could do anything for his mom. Ryuu was nine when this happened.<br/><br/>A few years passed and his mom picked up a couple more jobs to support the two of them, being gone for most of the day and night. He was only able to see her periodically whenever she got rest, little as it was. He cared for his mother, cooking and cleaning in her stead so she did not have more work to do when she came home. But eventually, all the hours of work and no rest eventually caught up with her and she became ill and needed to be hospitalized. Everyday after finish his day at Junior High, he would visit her at the hospital to make sure she was feeling okay and he always asked the doctor how she felt and how she was doing. One day, however, the doctor mentioned that she was succumbing to a rare disease that they suspected was hereditary. The doctor told him that because of all the exhaustion, her immune system couldn't keep up the work that it was supposed to and the disease started to manifest in her and start spreading in her body. Something that she would've succumbed to normally in 50 years suddenly looked like five years, at best.<br/><br/>Ryuu continued to visit his mother and ask questions to the doctor in hopes of good news, but no such luck happened. He sat by the bed where his mother laid, his head in hands and he continued to think about those words his older brother told him, which made him feel like shit. He was supposed to be protecting and taking care of his mother but she was dying in front of him and he could do nothing about it. "What was my brother going to say to me?" was the the question that kept repeating in his mind.<br/><br/>Eventually, the inevitable came and his mother died and was buried soon after. That day and the following week, Ryuu shut himself in his mothers room without saying a word to anyone. When he came out, he looked empty and like he didn't care anymore. He felt the pain of a bond being broken and letting down the expectations of others and he did not want to feel like that ever again so he shut his heart behind an impenetrable steel wall. He moved in with his father and brother, not speaking much to either of them but when it was time for him to go to high school, he requested that he would be allowed to move out. With reluctance, his father let him move out.<br/><br/>He moved into a small apartment complex and has lived there ever since. Ryuu spends his late nights listening to music in an attempt to calm his mind, feeling that the silence will surround and strangle him if he didn't. Ichikuji High eventually opened up nearby his apartment complex and he opted to go there since it was closer. Ryuu gets a monthly allowance from his father and he has a part-time job at a convenience store.<br/><br/><strong>Ons:</strong>Sincerity. Girls having modicum of intelligence. Witty and charming girls. Hard working girls. Legs. Tall girls.<br/><strong>Offs:</strong>Ignorance. Blatant stupidity. Bigotry. Mean people. Abusive people or situations. Boring people or situations.<br/><strong>Ons/Offs thread:</strong>Not obligatory.