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Sakazaki Yuuya|Hatoful Boyfriend
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Do you play anyone in Myth Making?: No
✒ IC
Name: Yuuya Sakazaki
Canon: Hatoful Boyfriend
Canon Point:
Age: 13, but birds age faster - he’s physically a young adult, mentally equivalent to 18.
Personality: At a glance, Yuuya is a confident carefree flirt, a ladies’ man (hen’s cock?), talkative, and a little absurd. He knows and is friendly with everyone. Absolutely everything that happens he seems to take in stride, with the same careless, gracious cheery ease. Just under the surface Yuuya's kind of dorky and a romantic.
Despite an obvious social nature he’s oddly aloof and opaque. It’s always hard to tell what he’s really thinking about serious things. Even if accused of a murder he had something to do with he seems relaxed, and there’s not much he seems to care strongly about. He’s really more of a very extroverted loner. Yuuya has many friends and is admired, but it’s almost all on the surface.
Not-so-secretly he’s more cold-blooded, cynical, and defiant than he seems - willing to get his feathers dirty, literally or otherwise. He does have some respect for authority, but it’s on his own terms. Yuuya will answer to others easily enough, though he feels it’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission sometimes, and in the end he really answers only to himself. He's also quite impulsive in the heat of the moment and likely to do things that turn out to be poor decisions.
When he isn’t coming off as cheerfully careless, he’s usually coming off as some degree or another of professional and competent. Sometimes the two attitudes are blended. If it’s called for he has a pretty good bedside manner too. Yuuya may happily show off his superspy skills if the situation calls for them, but won’t explain how he got them.
Yuuya withholds a lot of information if it doesn’t seem relevant at the moment, even if it would be better if he shared - impulsive, remember. He lies, deflects, and dissembles almost pathologically, hating to reveal that he's been lying, and he’s got layers. Deep down Yuuya’s unsure of himself and often indecisive, he is burdened by guilt, and despite outer appearances he does not like himself much. Sometimes, he’ll show that a little to someone he likes and trusts to some degree, speaking in a self-deriding or despairing way. He doesn’t want to worry people, though, and he tends to lie and dissemble as he catches himself. Insults and taunting don’t bring him down much, even if his past is brought up - someone remarks that he has a heart of used tires, indestructible.
Yuuya feels immense guilt and shame over what he did as a child, and knows he can’t change it, and he keeps quiet about it. Though he does often think he should tell Sakuya, that would mean revealing the lie. The least he can do is remember by himself, and carry that weight. It’s part of him. Maybe he doesn't like himself, but he's accepted what he's done and what it means about him. It drives him to try and be a better person, more forgiving, more concerned for people.
Despite the weight of his sins and failures, Yuuya can always continue on with a smile, and not even he knows how much of it is a bluff. He's become philosophical about things. Nobirdie can live without hurting anyone else. Nobirdie can ever be replaced. All he can do is endure everything, try to do what’s right, and keep going. It seems like he wouldn’t mind dying for a cause.
While he’s pretty fine with people not liking his little brother, Sakuya’s life and happiness mean everything to him. When he thinks Sakuya is really, pressingly threatened Yuuya loses his cool and becomes raw and desperate. Sakuya is also his weakness in that Yuuya can be blackmailed or otherwise made to do things he usually wouldn't if his brother's safety is brought up.
He’s quite slow to care about anyone else to that same degree, but he does care about people - he doesn’t lose his head, but he will similarly lunge to tackle people out of the way of attacks and think nothing at all of injuries received on the way. And he has some concern for emotional hurts too. He might think derisive thoughts, but he knows better than to speak them. When talking to Ryouta about Hiyoko and the changing nature of relationships, Yuuya was patient, fairly gentle, and even let go of one of his hard-kept personal secrets.
He will put himself at risk for others even besides his brother, if that doesn’t conflict with protecting Sakuya. He loves being like a good big brother to anyone. Yuuya bears few grudges and will bring his characteristic unflappability to bear when helping drowning swimmers who half crush him, or soothing hostages who try to strangle him. He is better than he thinks he is. He’s just not as good as he’d have anyone who’s seen him act heroic believe.
History: Hatoful Boyfriend takes place in a future where a disease devastated the human population. Birds became uplifted and took their place in society, though not without strife. There is continual conflict with the remains of humanity, and some bird factions wish to wipe them out.
Yuuya was born in Japan to a highly bred noblewoman and a leatherworker on society’s lowest rung. They’d eloped and were happy, but this state only lasted two years. His mother’s fiance, head of the powerful Le Bel family, caught up with them, had his father killed, and forced his mother to marry him and move to France. Le Bel would make sure young Yuuya was cared for, but only if the newly-laid egg containing Yuuya’s full brother was smashed.
His mother was distraught and Yuuya offered to smash the egg himself, but instead kept it, incubated it, waited until his mother laid a new egg with Le Bel, and covertly switched them. He smashed the new egg and saw his brother Sakuya raised up as the new Le Bel heir - as a snobbish aristocrat looking down on anyone with impure blood.
Yuuya wasn’t allowed to have much contact with him, and was sent to boarding schools and to live back in Japan. He also fell out of regular contact with his mother. Soon he wound up part of the Dove Party, a political faction that wanted to preserve the remaining humans and live in peace with them. In time he ended up as an agent in the espionage division, Heaven-Soaring Wings. They trained him, and he had particular aptitudes for using guns and hacking computers. He went out on some global missions and became well used to danger, frantic situations, and being injured.
At the appropriate age he enrolled in a prestigious high school, Saint Pigeonations’, to spy on the school’s doctor, a known agent for the anti-human Hawk Party who was suspected of experimenting on students. He was often absent on minor missions, and while he was popular he was close to no one. Yuuya volunteered in the infirmary and by his third year was trusted and capable enough to run the place when the doctor was out. He made friends with the school's single human student, and when he found that during his third and final year Sakuya would be transferred in he had the choice of leaving so familiar connections wouldn't interfere, or staying. He stayed just so he could be near his brother more, though Sakuya hated him.
By that third year he was also incautious enough that his snooping was found out. The doctor figured out that Sakuya wasn't a pure noble and blackmailed Yuuya into keeping quiet about his activities.
The Dove Party tasked Yuuya to stopping some thieves who he found were more dangerous than expected, weird hybrid creatures created by one of the doctor's deceased colleagues. The doctor took them in and seemed to mellow out a bit. In the succeeding months Yuuya helped stop a laser attack, confronted his brother's assassin butler, had the hybrid things act as his assistants in the infirmary, and messed up some plans in the criminal underworld.
Soon before graduation a number of staff and students went into a shared dream ruled over by a pain-averse ghost, who had become a kind of bizarre soul-absorbing horror. Yuuya used Inception-style tech to access the dream and helped the dreamers fight the ghost, who at one point offered to absorb Yuuya so he would feel no more guilt or pain. He refused. To help encourage a deeply troubled student who was considering the offer, Yuuya had a long talk with him, during which he revealed more of his personal philosophy and true nature than usual, including that some of his cheer was a bluff.
The ghost was defeated, Sakuya grudgingly admitted that Yuuya had helped, and by the time Yuuya graduated the doctor still hadn't been able to get past something that had shocked him to the core.
Canon Abilities or Powers: Yuuya’s an enormous uplifted white pigeon, around the size of an Andean Condor. Like standard pigeons he can fly strongly for hours and has inhuman senses. He’s got obscenely good color vision over a wide spectrum, so in good light he can see the pulse under human skin, the skin oil traces left when people touch things, and stars in the day. As with other birds he can also clearly see things that are too fast for the human eye to resolve well. The downside is that his night vision is very inferior. He can home in on places he’s been before and hear deeper sounds, like the wind in mountains and the sea on shores, letting him keep a kind of mental map.
As an uplifted bird his primary feathers are prehensile. They’re better at delicate manipulation than human fingers but don’t grasp heavy things as firmly, so he sometimes has to resort to feet and beak and would be unable to use bows or swords effectively. He’s able to speak with human voices, like a corvid or parrot. Since he’s big and heavily muscled, he can strike with his wings hard enough to fracture human bones.
Skillswise he’s got a good acquaintance with medicine particularly the emergency sort, is an excellent hacker, good with guns (made for birds), he has an outstanding pain tolerance, and he’s not bad at technology and improvising with it in general - he once rewired a lethal electric shock device to act as a defibrillator.
Yuuya carries Carneades, a virus which devastated his world’s bird populations and uplifted what it didn’t kill. He’s also unnaturally good at moving silently and being unobserved, despite being a big white bird.
Fairy Tale Role: The Princess (The White Dove, Danish version)
Fairy Tale Powers or Abilities: Yuuya’s usual form is a white dove. If someone were to kiss him he would transform into a human, and could choose to turn back at any point until maybe a day has passed, when he turns back involuntarily. He’s susceptible to being transformed into different things by others and can’t undo those on his own, but in any form being kissed will turn him human, and he can become a dove again from there.
As the Princess he can perform lengthy, laborious tasks at startling speed, whether they require deftness or force. He can detect enchantment on food or drink and determine what it would do, and can enchant inanimate objects to speak - not imbue them with personalities, but make them say a few phrases in response to questioning. Also, he can enchant a flowerpot to instantly become a forest or a glass of water to become a lake, if thrown down. He may be able to learn other talents, it looks like these are picked up somehow from the witch.
Finally he has a weird sort of breath weapon - a powerful wind with hundreds of summoned (normal) pigeons flying along in it. They attack whatever he wants and vanish with the wind when he stops blowing.
I’d like the human form to be his (noncanon) blue-haired moe anthropomorphization, and his bird form to be his usual uplifted dove form, much larger than most pigeons. He would keep his avian senses and grasping feathers, since they’re inherent to the shape, but lose the virus and his stealth talent.
Technically he’s kept by the witch, but the Princess was able to fly out in dove form and spy out the area, so he can pretty much leave at will. It’s just smuggling out a human that causes difficulties.
Personal Items: Ornamental glasses, a yellow-orange silk tie, and a strap-harness thing, barely visible under feathers, with pockets. The harness carries several other sets of glasses, one of which is techy and allows for colorless night vision, and his iPon, a kind of iPhone.
First Person Sample:
Seems a shame to make me a princess without specifying of what! Is there a country somewhere? I have to say if there’s an arranged marriage my imagined betrothed might be surprised! As would the people back home, I’m sure. Speaking of, not that there hasn’t been a warm welcome, but isn’t this all a bit abrupt? While I am of course an ever-adaptable super ex-student, this position may be better filled by someone else.
Pity this doesn’t seem to come with a wardrobe. I do look good in skirts.
Third Person Sample:
“If I might ask a boon, fair one!” Yuuya tipped his head winsomely to one side. “It says that if someone were to kiss me I might become human, briefly. Haha, I’ve never been human, but it sounds like fun!”
And it might help advance his knowledge of the species, to put it in clinical terms. Yuuya was generally in favor of humans - you didn’t become a Dove Party agent if you weren’t - but they were unquestionably strange people. What would it be like to bare thick spongy naked skin to the air? To have teeth and a flat flexible tongue? To stand stretched out and tenuous, to see such limited colors but snuff the air and read more from it? To manipulate things using appendages like toes, but softer? And all the rest, including those ludicrously vulnerable external genitalia. There was only so much that could be learned from the outside, or by asking people who had been like this all their lives.
He continued. “I am a gentleman dove, you know. Much more fun to kiss than a frog! And it comes without strings - just a kiss, nothing more. ...Unless that’s what you wanted.” Yuuya did not have a flexible mammalian face, but he could do something humans interpreted as a smile by opening his beak a little and holding his head in a particular way.
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