IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Ritsuka Aoyagi. Age: 12. Canon: LOVELESS. Canon Point: Chapter 100. Species: Human! In his canon, everyone is born with a pair of cat ears and a tail, which are lost when you lose your virginity. It was mentioned in some Q&A stuff for the game that characters would come in looking as human as possible, so these features would be missing upon his arrival (much to his shock ksdjhg). Gender: Male. Orientation: Sort of irrelevant because he's nowhere near being 18!
History:The Loveless Wiki and Ritsuka's Wiki Page. Appearance: Ritsuka stands at about 148 cm (4'10~4'11) and weighs roughly around 31 kg (~70 lbs). Kid is kind of small and skinny, with many of his peers being at least a little taller than him! Except Yayoi. His hair is black and eyes are a light blue/purple. His bangs sweep across his face, and his hair hangs in almost a shaggy fashion, with different length pieces hanging every which way. It's often commented that while physically he's cute, his expression and the way he carries himself doesn't seem very cute at all, especially since he doesn't often smile. Personality: Ritsuka is a complex kid who has gone through a lot of shit. He's suffered abuse at the hands of his own mother and seen some pretty traumatizing things - finding your brother's burned corpse in your chair at school does not make for happy memories. He's witnessed adults turn a blind eye to signs that obviously point at children needing help, he's learned to pretend to be someone he's not (the 'Ritsuka' he was before his memory loss) in order to placate his sick mother, and he deals with strange people coming out of the woodwork and into his life. For a kid of 12 who only remembers the past two to three years of his life due to amnesia, most of that time has been spent in a constant state of caution and cynicism.
At the start of the series Ritsuka is cold and unapproachable. He speaks to adults with a stiff, fake politeness and separates himself from his peers with both his body language and poor attitude. He thinks that life is boring, and he wishes that it could be over already. After all, the only person who made him happy (his older brother) was supposedly dead - murdered. Yuiko, a girl in his class, is the only one who tries to get to know Ritsuka on his first day in his new class. At first she says it's because all the other children told her to get to know him, which he finds stupid and brushes her off. She cries and he doesn't care. She keeps at it though and eventually admits it's really because she believes that you should be nice to new kids in school - which gets a smile from Ritsuka and a teensy bit of a crack in his disinterested persona. In a short time, we find out that Ritsuka isn't as cold or mean as he originally comes off as. There's actually quite a lot going on underneath the surface, conflicting emotions and mood whiplash galore. Cracking the cooler outer shell isn't difficult once a sensitive issue is probed, either intentionally or unintentionally. Once people begin to get to know him and once he becomes more comfortable he's not nearly as harsh, even when correcting or disagreeing with them. As the series progresses Yuiko and Ritsuka become best friends, with Ritsuka giving her the confidence to be her own person (which is, interestingly, something he tries to subvert himself when he's with his mother) and Yuiko keeps Ritsuka grounded and reminds him that he's still just a kid. He likes taking pictures (something he calls "making memories") and playing games, going on the computer and reading books... all traits that make him far more endearing and show how he's really still a kid the more you learn about them.
Despite how young he is Ritsuka approaches most things with maturity and intelligence. Because of the way he was treated by his mother and the sudden death of his older brother, he lacks innocence about the world and how people can really be. He's is, however, naïve about relationships - how healthy functional relationships work, and especially sex. Love itself is something of a taboo subject for Ritsuka. He dislikes it when someone says they like him or try to show him affection because it makes him feel uncomfortable - which most likely can be pinned on the fact that he doesn't really know how to express himself when it comes to positive emotions like love and friendship. For a kid who has all the words about his beliefs and opinions and dislikes, when it comes to expressing his happiness, he has difficulty. He ends up bottling up and keeping the feelings internal. ... He's working on that though! In general, Ritsuka's moods can flick back and forth like a light switch. He's very easy to goad and get a reaction out of when his defenses are down, being the emotional and opinionated person that he is. Getting him mad really isn't difficult! He has a bit of a temper, and in a side story it's noted that he's notorious for kicking chairs at times. He even flips a desk early on in canon when he finds out Yuiko is being bullied! At one point in the series he goes from being happy to sad to mad to annoyed in the same scene. When he's neutral and calm, he's generally very straight to the point and honest about what he says, having no problems expressing how he really feels about something - usually a "That's weird" or "That's stupid." It's important to note though that he doesn't say those things with malice, in more of an observational way! They can even be said in a fond way.
Ritsuka holds his beliefs very strongly and he's usually stubborn about a view once he's taken it. If he chooses to believe someone he'll believe them despite his better judgment. Even his love of his brother, despite having been shown by several people that he's basically a crazy murderer who betrayed him, doesn't fade after he finds out the various sides of him he didn't know. It's often said that while Seimei (his brother) and Ritsuka look similar, they're as different as night and day when you take their personalities into account. Seimei is sneaky and manipulative while Ritsuka is open and straight-forward. Ritsuka seeks the truth and Seimei hides it. Ritsuka values his relationships and Seimei gives no shits about people. I can go on and on, but I won't make you snore than you might have already! Moving on.
Ritsuka also tends to be a walking contradiction, especially with the things he says and the things he does. Early on in the series he loudly proclaims a dislike of people who are stupid and let others use them, that he hates liars and lies in general, that smokers are gross - but he ends up being used by Seimei, tells more than his share of lies, and seems to generally overlook the fact that Soubi smokes despite disliking it. To put it simply, he's a bit of a hypocrite! Often his beliefs and actions are at odds with one another, showing something of a "ends justify the means" attitude about some things - but one thing he's adamant about is not hurting anyone else. He calls himself a pacifist, but interestingly, not for moral reasons like you might expect from a kid like him. He's a pacifist because the abuse his mother inflicts on him disgusts him, and he can't make himself do that to someone else - it's not about not wanting to hurt another being. He even lets Soubi do the dirty work for him when it comes to fights - Soubi fights, and Ritsuka knows he has to let him to get what he wants. Again, ends justify the means, to an extent. When he wants something he's extremely driven and willing to go to extremes - which you might not expect from his usual mature and logical way of viewing things. He's skipped school, stayed out past curfew, gotten entangled in some stuff that he probably shouldn't have... he's not always a good kid! This part of him ties into the more emotional and impulsive side that he has trouble with. And, of course, he's also still just a kid (his emotional and impulsive side is probably largely due to him being a kid) - he's prone to his little tantrums and childish behavior despite his usual maturity.
There's also a very loyal and sweet side to Ritsuka, once you've become a friend (or at least a positive force) in his mind. The people who he gets to know are very important to him and often get glimpses of a sillier and more charismatic side - laughter and smiles, jokes, teasing, pep talks, advice, book recommendations, etc. He also tends to be a worry-wart about those he cares about, despite not much taking care of himself. His little quirks and weird behavior are much more obvious when he's become friendly with someone, where strangers usually either get the polite or mature/serious side. His likes and dislikes come out, and they're pretty weird! He likes to chew mushy things because they're easy to chew, he likes sweets and dislikes bitter tastes, and if he could he'd eat fast food all the time. Weird kid stuff!
Overwhelmingly, Ritsuka is a child that is starved for affection and love. He deals with his abusive mother because he loves her, he pushes his love onto her despite it coming back to hit him in the face because he doesn't want to let her go - she's all he has at one point. Even when Seimei's behavior comes to light Ritsuka is unwilling to hate his brother, claiming he still loves him despite the horrible things he's allegedly done. Love makes people stupid and in Ritsuka's case he's so desperate for it he willingly chooses to close up and ignore what's normally a pretty mature and logical thought process.
Ritsuka's interesting in that his character changes with those he interacts with - the positive and the negative influences in his life very much affect him in how he acts and how he grows. He essentially starts off as a blank slate, coming into the series being kind of an ass, and evolves as he creates relationships. The things people say that touch him, and the truths he learns from them, the things they do that move him. From the point I'll be taking him from he'll have had a good amount of this, and be in the midst of growing as a person. He's recently learned that his opinions and beliefs aren't always right, even people who he had a previous poor opinion are still just people, and that believing in someone or something 100% may not be the way to go about things. He'll not be super prickly like in the beginning of the series because he's made some relationships that have both calmed him down, but he won't be super friendly with anyone either due to the fact that while he has no problems talking to people he's not a social butterfly who befriends anyone after a single conversation.
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Characters Name: Ritsuka Aoyagi.
Age: 12.
Canon: LOVELESS.
Canon Point: Chapter 100.
Species: Human! In his canon, everyone is born with a pair of cat ears and a tail, which are lost when you lose your virginity. It was mentioned in some Q&A stuff for the game that characters would come in looking as human as possible, so these features would be missing upon his arrival (much to his shock ksdjhg).
Gender: Male.
Orientation: Sort of irrelevant because he's nowhere near being 18!
History: The Loveless Wiki and Ritsuka's Wiki Page.
Appearance: Ritsuka stands at about 148 cm (4'10~4'11) and weighs roughly around 31 kg (~70 lbs). Kid is kind of small and skinny, with many of his peers being at least a little taller than him! Except Yayoi. His hair is black and eyes are a light blue/purple. His bangs sweep across his face, and his hair hangs in almost a shaggy fashion, with different length pieces hanging every which way. It's often commented that while physically he's cute, his expression and the way he carries himself doesn't seem very cute at all, especially since he doesn't often smile.
Personality: Ritsuka is a complex kid who has gone through a lot of shit. He's suffered abuse at the hands of his own mother and seen some pretty traumatizing things - finding your brother's burned corpse in your chair at school does not make for happy memories. He's witnessed adults turn a blind eye to signs that obviously point at children needing help, he's learned to pretend to be someone he's not (the 'Ritsuka' he was before his memory loss) in order to placate his sick mother, and he deals with strange people coming out of the woodwork and into his life. For a kid of 12 who only remembers the past two to three years of his life due to amnesia, most of that time has been spent in a constant state of caution and cynicism.
At the start of the series Ritsuka is cold and unapproachable. He speaks to adults with a stiff, fake politeness and separates himself from his peers with both his body language and poor attitude. He thinks that life is boring, and he wishes that it could be over already. After all, the only person who made him happy (his older brother) was supposedly dead - murdered. Yuiko, a girl in his class, is the only one who tries to get to know Ritsuka on his first day in his new class. At first she says it's because all the other children told her to get to know him, which he finds stupid and brushes her off. She cries and he doesn't care. She keeps at it though and eventually admits it's really because she believes that you should be nice to new kids in school - which gets a smile from Ritsuka and a teensy bit of a crack in his disinterested persona. In a short time, we find out that Ritsuka isn't as cold or mean as he originally comes off as. There's actually quite a lot going on underneath the surface, conflicting emotions and mood whiplash galore. Cracking the cooler outer shell isn't difficult once a sensitive issue is probed, either intentionally or unintentionally. Once people begin to get to know him and once he becomes more comfortable he's not nearly as harsh, even when correcting or disagreeing with them. As the series progresses Yuiko and Ritsuka become best friends, with Ritsuka giving her the confidence to be her own person (which is, interestingly, something he tries to subvert himself when he's with his mother) and Yuiko keeps Ritsuka grounded and reminds him that he's still just a kid. He likes taking pictures (something he calls "making memories") and playing games, going on the computer and reading books... all traits that make him far more endearing and show how he's really still a kid the more you learn about them.
Despite how young he is Ritsuka approaches most things with maturity and intelligence. Because of the way he was treated by his mother and the sudden death of his older brother, he lacks innocence about the world and how people can really be. He's is, however, naïve about relationships - how healthy functional relationships work, and especially sex. Love itself is something of a taboo subject for Ritsuka. He dislikes it when someone says they like him or try to show him affection because it makes him feel uncomfortable - which most likely can be pinned on the fact that he doesn't really know how to express himself when it comes to positive emotions like love and friendship. For a kid who has all the words about his beliefs and opinions and dislikes, when it comes to expressing his happiness, he has difficulty. He ends up bottling up and keeping the feelings internal. ... He's working on that though! In general, Ritsuka's moods can flick back and forth like a light switch. He's very easy to goad and get a reaction out of when his defenses are down, being the emotional and opinionated person that he is. Getting him mad really isn't difficult! He has a bit of a temper, and in a side story it's noted that he's notorious for kicking chairs at times. He even flips a desk early on in canon when he finds out Yuiko is being bullied! At one point in the series he goes from being happy to sad to mad to annoyed in the same scene. When he's neutral and calm, he's generally very straight to the point and honest about what he says, having no problems expressing how he really feels about something - usually a "That's weird" or "That's stupid." It's important to note though that he doesn't say those things with malice, in more of an observational way! They can even be said in a fond way.
Ritsuka holds his beliefs very strongly and he's usually stubborn about a view once he's taken it. If he chooses to believe someone he'll believe them despite his better judgment. Even his love of his brother, despite having been shown by several people that he's basically a crazy murderer who betrayed him, doesn't fade after he finds out the various sides of him he didn't know. It's often said that while Seimei (his brother) and Ritsuka look similar, they're as different as night and day when you take their personalities into account. Seimei is sneaky and manipulative while Ritsuka is open and straight-forward. Ritsuka seeks the truth and Seimei hides it. Ritsuka values his relationships and Seimei gives no shits about people. I can go on and on, but I won't make you snore than you might have already! Moving on.
Ritsuka also tends to be a walking contradiction, especially with the things he says and the things he does. Early on in the series he loudly proclaims a dislike of people who are stupid and let others use them, that he hates liars and lies in general, that smokers are gross - but he ends up being used by Seimei, tells more than his share of lies, and seems to generally overlook the fact that Soubi smokes despite disliking it. To put it simply, he's a bit of a hypocrite! Often his beliefs and actions are at odds with one another, showing something of a "ends justify the means" attitude about some things - but one thing he's adamant about is not hurting anyone else. He calls himself a pacifist, but interestingly, not for moral reasons like you might expect from a kid like him. He's a pacifist because the abuse his mother inflicts on him disgusts him, and he can't make himself do that to someone else - it's not about not wanting to hurt another being. He even lets Soubi do the dirty work for him when it comes to fights - Soubi fights, and Ritsuka knows he has to let him to get what he wants. Again, ends justify the means, to an extent. When he wants something he's extremely driven and willing to go to extremes - which you might not expect from his usual mature and logical way of viewing things. He's skipped school, stayed out past curfew, gotten entangled in some stuff that he probably shouldn't have... he's not always a good kid! This part of him ties into the more emotional and impulsive side that he has trouble with. And, of course, he's also still just a kid (his emotional and impulsive side is probably largely due to him being a kid) - he's prone to his little tantrums and childish behavior despite his usual maturity.
There's also a very loyal and sweet side to Ritsuka, once you've become a friend (or at least a positive force) in his mind. The people who he gets to know are very important to him and often get glimpses of a sillier and more charismatic side - laughter and smiles, jokes, teasing, pep talks, advice, book recommendations, etc. He also tends to be a worry-wart about those he cares about, despite not much taking care of himself. His little quirks and weird behavior are much more obvious when he's become friendly with someone, where strangers usually either get the polite or mature/serious side. His likes and dislikes come out, and they're pretty weird! He likes to chew mushy things because they're easy to chew, he likes sweets and dislikes bitter tastes, and if he could he'd eat fast food all the time. Weird kid stuff!
Overwhelmingly, Ritsuka is a child that is starved for affection and love. He deals with his abusive mother because he loves her, he pushes his love onto her despite it coming back to hit him in the face because he doesn't want to let her go - she's all he has at one point. Even when Seimei's behavior comes to light Ritsuka is unwilling to hate his brother, claiming he still loves him despite the horrible things he's allegedly done. Love makes people stupid and in Ritsuka's case he's so desperate for it he willingly chooses to close up and ignore what's normally a pretty mature and logical thought process.
Ritsuka's interesting in that his character changes with those he interacts with - the positive and the negative influences in his life very much affect him in how he acts and how he grows. He essentially starts off as a blank slate, coming into the series being kind of an ass, and evolves as he creates relationships. The things people say that touch him, and the truths he learns from them, the things they do that move him. From the point I'll be taking him from he'll have had a good amount of this, and be in the midst of growing as a person. He's recently learned that his opinions and beliefs aren't always right, even people who he had a previous poor opinion are still just people, and that believing in someone or something 100% may not be the way to go about things. He'll not be super prickly like in the beginning of the series because he's made some relationships that have both calmed him down, but he won't be super friendly with anyone either due to the fact that while he has no problems talking to people he's not a social butterfly who befriends anyone after a single conversation.