KUROSAWA, RYU, Civilian

[Ryu Kurosawa]

RYU JIRAIYA KUROSAWA

Getting to know you...
Name: Ryu Jiraiya Kurosawa
Nicknames: RJ
Age: 18
Date of birth: August 4th
Occupation: Student
School: St. Marina's
Grade: Senior

Piercings: None
Tattoos: He has half sleeves that go to the top of his pecks at the front, and towards his soulder blades in the back. On his right arm is a dragon fighting a tiger, and on his left is the ninja Jiraiya killing a snake.

Physical description:
Ryu is not a physically imposing looking guy, but his looks hide his strength. Although only standing at 5'9", he feels that this is the perfect height, since it is not too short, or too tall. He is particularly happy to be that tall, since his father is only 5'5", and his mother is 5'2", which used to make him think that he would be 5'7" at most when he was younger. He had also thought that he would not be very muscular...and he was right. Still, he does have a very lean musculature to him, which he feels is perfect for his height, and for playing sports, particularly the ones that involve running fast. He keeps his physique by not only doing sports, but also weightlifting, wrestling, and doing Muay Thai, since he had felt it would be a better martial art for his body type than any Japanese martial art that his father had wanted him to study.

His face is one of his best features in his opinion, and especially his eyes. The reason for this is that he has been told that he has very nice eyes, and that when he looks at people, it is almost like he is looking through them right into their souls. While he does not know if this is true, or not, it certainly has helped him in getting people to do what he wants in a lot of situations. If that is not enough to get girls, he usually falls back to his smile. He has also been told that few people could resist him when he had a smile on his face, because it made him look very boyishly handsome. He uses this to its fullest, and although not always liking the way he looks, does like that he looks unique.

His hair is something that he is also proud of. Although his hair is naturally black, he has been having blonde highlites put in his hair ever since he was about thirteen years old because he had thought it would make him look good. He also has a layered haircut thinking that it makes him look better than the short hair that he use to have when he was younger. It was initially done out of rebellion, because his father had wanted him to look professional, and he wanted to show his individuality, but has been keeping his hair this way for several years because he likes it this way.

Ryu dresses very casually when he is out of his school uniform. He will usually wear t-shirts under a gakuran jacket that he had been given as a present from his parents even though he never asked for it. He has been given several more gakuran jackets over the years in different colors, and has learned to like them. He also occasionally will wear a sweater instead of his gakuran jacket. Ryu also has lots of pairs of jeans in different colors. However, he does have several suits that he had been bought for more formal situations, but he does not like wearing them, and can only be seen wearing them on rare occasions. On his feet, he can almost always be seen with a pair of combat boots, unless he is playing sports, or is at a formal event, where he will wear sneakers, and dress shoes respectively.

Likes:
-Women
-Football
-Baseball
-Wrestling
-Animals
-Cars
-Motorcycles
-Summer
-Tattoos
-Snow

Dislikes:
-Whiny people
-Goody two shoes
-Cold weather
-People thinking he is the stereotypical Asian
-People thinking he speaks Japanese
-People who think he is a redneck
-Boring people
-Drugs
-Hospitals
-Rain

Personality:
Despite what his grades show, Ryu is a very intelligent man, but does not like to show it. Knowing that the stereotype of Asian people, particularly Japanese ones, are that they are extremely studious, he has tried to dispel that idea. Having people think that he must be very studious, and nerdy had made Ryu angry as a child, so he had started to focus more on the things that would make him different from the stereotypes about Asian people. Still, on occasion, he does show how intelligent that he really is in either conversation, or in his studies. This is occasionally to show that he is not stupid, but has also been shown to his father, so that he will allow Ryu to continue to live his life whatever way he wants with no interference from his parents. For this reason, he always makes sure to keep his grades at a C average, so that he can still pass his classes, but is not thought of as a nerd, or braniac by anyone.

Ryu does not like to talk too much, having been raised by his parents to know that it is easier, and better to talk less, so as not to say something stupid, or talk about nothing. Instead, he likes to show people whatever he intends on demonstrating most of the time. It has worked for him very well, and gotten him friends this way. Unfortunately, it has made people think that he was quiet, because he was shy, which could not be further from the truth. However, he does not usually try to correct people, because although some people have seen him as shy, the few that have thought that his quietness meant he was weak were soon shown that his lack of talking did lead to him proving physically that he was very tough, and had no probably proving it.

Ryu is usually fairly stoic in his anger, but once he does get angry, watch out. This had first been proven when as a child another kid decided to try, and pick on him. It did not end up very well for that kid. Although he did end up getting hit in the stomach a lot of times during that fight, and was outnumbered by the kid's friends, at the end of the fight, the other kid had a black eye, broken nose, and busted lip. From then on, he has been in lots of other fights, and has won, or at least in his opinion, because he was never knocked unconscious, and hurt the other person much more than he was hurt. It also does not hurt that he has been learning martial arts, and wrestling for a few years, or at least does not hurt him.

Ryu is a charmer, and it has worked for him well. Even when he was still living in Texas, he had used his Asian looks to get girls to like him, since he was smaller, and much cuter than the other guys in his class. Although he does not like being thought of as small, and weak, Ryu can not deny that it had helped him get out of situations with girls by using a puppy dog face, and having them forgive him for whatever he had done wrong, which on some occasions was as bad as him feeling them up, or kissing them when they did not want to. Also, using the write lines on girls have also helped him to the point where he had convinced a girl to sleep with him, but she had decided not to about a minute before he got to the undressing part. As for relationships, he never really had one, so he is not sure whether he would want one, or not, but is not against the idea.

Getting to know all about you...
Parents:
Ichigo Kurosawa; 44; Father; CEO of Kurosawa Industries, a front for the Japanese yakuza
Sakura Kurosawa (nee Yamashi); 40; Mother; CEO of Yamashi Cosmetics, a division of Kurosawa Industries
Siblings: None
Pets/Other: A sugar glider named Flash

History:
Ryu Kurosawa was born to Ichigo Kurosawa, and his wife Sakura. Both were originally from Japan, and were from families that had been part of the yakuza. They had known each other as children, and had been arranged to have a marriage when they were old enough. However, what their respective families would not expect was that both had decided to go to the United States after they were to get married. By the time that the families found out that the two were planning to move to the United States, they had decided that it would be a good time to branch out their activities to the United States. Publicly, the two families also wanted to merge their companies, and open up a branch in the United States, so that was what they had done.

The Kurosawas had moved to the perfect place for tolerance, and liberal thinking...Houston, Texas. Approximately a year into their marriage, Ryu was born. As a toddler, he was very hyper, and loved to run all around the house in the nude. He would also make a lot of mischief in his house, but his parents never thought that it was anything more than some innocent troublemaking, and that he would grow out of it eventually, although he never has. Instead, the troublemaking had just become worse when he became older, because he wanted to fit in, and that was what he did. The only thing was that he started fitting in with the bad crowd, so as to not be like the stereotype of Asian people. It also did not help that his father had not stopped working for the yakuza, and still has not stopped, although Ichigo has managed to keep it secret from Ryu.

His years in Texas had been very enjoyable for him, and made him feel like he was a Texan cowboy no matter what anyone else would say to him. He has spent the first fourteen years of his life there, and got into football, and wrestling. He had also started taking Muay Thai lessons around the time he had entered junior high school, since his father had thought that martial arts would help, and decided to ask Ryu what martial art he would want to take. So, he decided to take Muay Thai, because he felt that it worked well with his body type. He had also taken up wrestling, because he thought that it would be fun to do, and would maybe get him a trophy along with showing people just how strong that he was.

However, a few months before he was to enter high school, his father decided to move the entire family to Alameda County, California. Ryu was very upset to have to leave his friends behind, but had very little choice in the matter. When he arrived in California, his father had enrolled him at St. Marina's immediately, having found out that it is one of the best schools in the United States if not in the world. He soon started to get back to his old ways, and became popular in St. Marina's as well by becoming the runningback for St. Marina's, and a member of the school's wrestling team. Being his last year, he is hoping to be able to graduate, and finally be able to be out on his own. If he somehow was able to get into the NFL, or at least college football, that would certainly make it better.

Role Play Sample:
Being bored out of his mind, Giovanni sat at the meeting that King William had set up that day with the members of his Privy Council to talk to the Ambassadors. Giovanni might have wanted to garner an alliance between England, and Venice, in order to unite all of Italy together under Vittorio, but that did not mean that he liked all that it took for him to get that done. In fact, he hated being in the company of many of the men in the room, because they were so boring that he just wanted to knock himself unconscious, so he could be taken out of the meeting. However, he knew that he had a responsibility to his family, Venice, and to the rest of Italy in uniting the country somehow. He forced himself to sit there, and concentrate on what the king was saying. Managing to get some information from what the king was saying, then responding about something, he saw that they had understood what he wanted to say, even if Giovanni himself was not sure what that was.

Once the meeting had ended, Giovanni got up from his seat, and walked to the ambassadors quarters. Once he had walked into the ambassadors quarters, he went to his room. Giovanni felt that he needed a small nap, or just something to take his mind off of not being in Venice. While he had volunteered to be the Ambassador, Giovanni was starting to regret it, because it meant that he was away from the beauty that was Venice. Oh, how he loved riding on gondolas through the waters, and just running through the streets. He was now starting to understand what people meant when they said that you never miss something until you do not have it anymore. It was something that he knew all too well, but Giovanni felt that he might as well make the best of being in England, and that it could always be worse for him than being an Ambassador for Italy in England.

Deciding that he needed a bath, Giovanni had one of the servants draw him one just the way that he liked. While in the bath, the water had untensed some of the kinks in neck, and back. After he cleaned himself, Giovanni took the towel that the servant gave him, drying himself off, before getting dressed again. Once he was dressed, he decided to go outside, since he felt that it was far too nice of a day to stay indoors. Watching the servant leave the room, Giovanni put on his sword belt with his rapier in it. He almost felt naked without the rapier, so he carried it with him everywhere, almost never taking it off, or at least having it near him. Going to the door of his room, he walked out.

Giovanni walked down the corridor, and to a door that passed through the great hall. He had first decided to go to the great hall, because he had thought that he dropped it accidentally in the room where the meeting had been held, and it was a quicker way to get there. When he got to the door, Giovanni opened it, and walked into the great hall.

Standing on the other side of the door, Giovanni was about to go towards the room when he caught sight of someone from the corner of his right eye that looked familiar. He turned to the right, and almost could not believe who was standing there in front of him perhaps four feet away at most. Something about her standing there just seemed like it was a dream, and there was no possible way she could be there. While he knew that she was from English nobility, something about her being there seemed like it was too much of a coincidence for it to be real. What was the chances that they would meet again? What was the chances he would meet the one woman that made him want to commit to a monogamous relationship rather than just having one night of pleasure? Apparently, the chances were very good.

Looking her over from head to toe, Giovanni could tell that she had been as beautiful as she was when they last saw each other, if not even more beautiful. He did not know whether to greet her, kiss her, or rip her clothes off, and have his way with her right there. Those feelings of passion that the felt when they were physically intimate suddenly began to work there way through his body again. Still, he knew that she must have decided to leave France, and him, for the same reason that he would have probably done to her, which was because the week that they spent together was starting to become more than that, and she did not know how to feel about that. He felt the same way that she had, or at least once he had come back to Venice, realizing that nothing could have probably come from it, seeing as she was English, and was probably betrothed to someone else, while he was Italian, and a man who enjoyed not being tied down to one woman.
At least that was the way that he felt, until about six months before he left Venice as am Ambassador. He was starting to realize that it was time for him to have a serious relationship, and get married. When he first started thinking this, Giovanni immediately knew that it had something to do with the impact that Katharine had on him with the dalliance they had. I am the Ambassador of Italy. I think I know why you are here. Your family brought you back to England to get married. Am I correct?. He spoke with a noticeable Italian accent, since that was where he was from. He knew that it was very presumptuous of him to think that was the reason Katharine was brought back to England, but he hoped it was her family that brought her back rather than her wanting to leave.

Memories of the way they met then started to run through his head. Having come to the estate of the Duke of Aquitaine to talk of an alliance between the Duke, and Giovanni's father, the Doge of Vienna, he stumbled upon her bathing nude in the lake. He had not thought of her as a harlot, but was very intrigued who she was, since she was very beautiful, and had wanted to know if she was a harlot, or not. Before that, he turned around for her to get dressed, not wanting to seem ungentlemanly. Sure, he had slept with many women, but he was always very gentlemanly, and treated them all like ladies. When she was dressed, he was about to ask her more questions about who she was when he suddenly heard her speak Italian to him, and hearing that, he started to think that she was probably an English noblewoman, since she had an English accent. That made him want to know about her even more.

That week, Giovanni spent getting to know Katharine, and started to get intrigued with her the more that he knew about her. She was just so very different than the noblewomen that he knew, especially in the area of passion, since he was not sure if he would ever find someone to match his passion, but she had. Then there was also her looks, which made him work hard not to babble around her. Not only was her figure one that he thought Aphrodite had, but her beautiful grey eyes, which he just wanted to get lost in, and her beautiful lips that he promised himself he would kiss one day. There was just nothing about her that he did not like, and it made him enjoy every moment that he spent with her.

The week, which he felt could not get any better then did when she let him into his bed. Each time that they became physically intimate brought not only passion in a physical way, but also in an emotional way as well. Also, the fact that there was almost no one else in the Duke's estate aside from a few servants made the rendezvouses they had secret, since no one at the estate knew much about either of them. It was the perfect one week affair, which was suppose to just be for that one week, and then they would go their separate ways, but needless to say, that was not what happened. Seeing that they were developing feelings for each other, neither knew what to do.

At the end of that week, Giovanni saw Katharine leave, and felt that it was the right decision for the both of them. He had stayed at the estate for a little while after that talking to the Duke of Aquitaine, and when he felt that there was some agreement made, Giovanni left as well, hoping to forget the events of that week with Katharine, so that he could move on with his life, but somehow, he knew it just was not going to be that easy. What they had was something special, and no matter what he had with the women before, or after their one week affair, nothing would ever be the same, and no woman had been able to give him as much of herself as Katharine had.

Hearing her say his name, he held his hands at his side, wanting to reach out, and touch her face, and feel her lips on his again, but he knew it would not be right. They had promised each other what they had, and as hard for him as it was, Giovanni did not want to go against what she had wanted, despite feeling like she felt the same way he did. As far as he knew, she could have been engaged to someone, and Giovanni would not have felt right about.

When he saw she was about to leave, something in him just refused to let her go this easily as when they had been at the Duke's estate. Reaching out a hand, he lightly put it onto one of her shoulders, to turn her so she faced him again. I understand that this is probably a very akward moment, Katharine, and I apologize for that. What we had was special, and we need to talk about it, so that the issue becomes closed. That is the only way I think either of us will be able to see each other without these unresolved feelings between us. He just wanted closure, because otherwise those thoughts would eat away at him too him, and he did not want that, and he was also pretty sure Katharine did not either.

OOC Information
Name: Henry
Timezone: Eastern
Method of contact: PM
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RP Experience: Four years

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