Shindou Hikaru

ABOUT HIKARU IN GENERAL
Canon: Hikaru no Go
Gender: Cis male. That being said, I'm definitely not opposed to playing him as female for an RP, whether it's an event shenanigans thing or just in general.
Species: Human
Nationality: Japanese
Alignment: Chaotic neutral leaning on chaotic good
Age: 15
Height: No idea, but he's on the shorter side. 5'3?
Weight: Who knows. He's rather small. Probably 110 soaking wet, I'm guessing.
Hair: Brownish black but he bleaches his bangs. Approaching medium length for a boy- certainly longer than his mother would prefer
Eye color: Can look either green or gray, depending on his mood or what he's wearing (In reality, it's just that in the manga he had grey eyes and in the anime they gave him green, so I tend to kind of split the difference)
Powers/Abilities: Generally he's just your average human, except for two things: he's an idiot savant when it comes to Go (a Japanese board game that he plays professionally), and he spent four years of his life haunted by a ghost. The series doesn't explore it at all, but he probably has some level of medium/psychic ability that's he's unaware of. He's also really good at convincing people he's an expert on Honinbou Shuusaku and seems low key obsessed with him. There's definitely no reason for that at all ;)
Personality: Hikaru could be accused of having two different personalities. In general, he's a cheerful, hyper, friendly kid who loves to have fun. He likes sports and has always been active and easily distracted (he's calmed down a bit now, but he's almost textbook ADHD). He would eat ramen for every meal if he could. He has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth, and despite his name literally meaning "light," he's not the brightest bulb in the box. He's kind of an oblivious idiot, actually, and notoriously terrible at school when he still went- but he can have a sharp tongue if he's annoyed or upset. He makes friends easily, and even when he has to force a friendship a bit, he tends to grow on people. He's also only got two volume settings- loud and louder. He loves bright colors (yellow is his favorite) and used to go around looking like a highlighter set. Thankfully, it's reduced down to a reasonable level as he's gotten older and has needed to dress up more on a regular basis. He's also shockingly a neat freak (it's the virgo in him, lol).

However, get him in front of a Go board and he's almost an entirely different person. Suddenly he's serious, focused, determined, ambitious, and somehow kind of a genius. He's well-known for making moves on the board that seem insignificant or downright insane in the moment that come back later to win him the game. He's a massive risk taker as a player, and he doesn't always have the skill set to back it up, but he's getting better all the time thanks to playing constantly with his friends and his boyfriend Eternal Rival, Touya Akira.

He also had a period of depression the first year he was a Go pro due to a massive loss in his personal life. It changed him forever- he has moments of melancholy now, and he generally dislikes being left alone to his own thoughts for too long. He almost always has some kind of background noise going on. Surprisingly, he's not a straight up extrovert like one might assume and is more introverted than even his friends would guess. Hikaru kind of has his own gravitational pull- he has the kind of energy that just attracts people to him, but he rarely seeks out other people himself.
Role in Canon: Protagonist- the show has his name on it!
Voice: His voice has yet to break at 15
Birthday: September 20 (Virgo)
Rank: 1-dan (basically, the first and lowest level for pros, which people usually move through quickly but he didn't- his rank suffered greatly due to missing a bunch of games, see previous note about the period of depression). To be fair, he'll definitely go up to a 2-dan during the next ranking matches, but he'll probably never live down that he was a 1-dan for so long, especially with his friend Waya.

HIKARU'S SEXUAL PREFERENCES
Canon does not address this. However, he clearly doesn't think much of girls. More importantly, he's had several INTENSE relationships with other boys, the most important of which is Touya. Honestly, you could make an argument that he's Touya-sexual, but he's probably gay. A Kinsey 5, you might say. That being said, it's important to note that he probably has absolutely no clue about this yet. He's not the most self-aware, for starters. More to the point, he spent many years with a hyperactive ghost around constantly and knowing what he was thinking. So, for many of the years a lot of people start figuring out who and what they like, he didn't really have the space to explore anything about his own sexuality and had to repress that. Add on top of that the fact that he's Japanese, and Japan tends to be fairly homophobic in general. So yeah, honestly, he's never thought about it and if pressed he'd probably assume he's a (straight) late bloomer, or maybe even asexual. Not that he even knows what asexual is, he would just wave it off and be like, "I'm not into that stuff."

Hikaru doesn't really have any warnings, per se, besides that he's fifteen and should be treated as such.

That being said, if you'd rather not play with him, let me know. Or, alternately, if there are just certain scenarios you'd rather not do, let me know that, too. Comments are screened.

IC PERMISSIONS
Hugging: Sure, as long as he knows you. He's a touchy kind of kid.
Kissing: Uh, you can, I can't guarantee that it's going to go well.
Flirting: LMAO, you can try. He's very dense and will absolutely be oblivious to flirting until he gets a clue by four to the head.
Fighting: If he has to? He's not as active as he used to be and he's never been a fighter, really. He'd rather not in general- unless you happen to trip on his moral code, or insult Shuusaku in any way. At that point he will absolutely go feral and want to rip your face off.
Injuring: Probably fine as long as there's no actual maiming or loss of body parts. But give me a heads up first so we can talk through it.
Killing: Probably not fine, but again, talk to me about it.
Telepathy/mind reading: I kind of feel sorry for anybody who tries, tbh. Good luck and god speed.

Hey, sorry I'm not around right now! Leave a message and I'll get back to you. Maybe.

[OOC Note: He will probably not get back to you.]