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Yamamoto Takeshi | Katekyo Hitman Reborn | No reserve
Contact Info: Plurk: dubbins AIM: theamazingdubs
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Apartment: Not really a preferred apartment in particular, but if there's one open with someone that might keep an eye out for him it would be much appreciated!
Character Name: Takeshi Yamamoto (he usually goes by Yamamoto)
Canon: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Background/History: Link because I don't think you would appreciate me being a wise-ass about 350 or so chapters of this spectacular series.
All so don't look too close at the personality section in the wiki because it was made by 14 year olds with little-to-no character insight and I can pinpoint pages on the places I differ from the wiki knowledge.
In short I'm a bigger nerd than them with a little background in psychology.**A bit of a note, because I don't want to have to inflict super-powered world-saving teenage boy upon everyone right off. I'll be taking him just after he's been healed by Byakuran, which means that the key to his fancy shounen laser thing is currently a pretty blue rock. He can unlock it when he needs to, but first he'll probably just react to his surroundings. I love this series for all of it's craziness and flaws, but I am well aware how obnoxious super-powered teenagers can be.
Previous Game History: N/A
Personality: For the most part, Yamamoto seems like a friendly, easy going, laid back sorta guy. If he were a meme he'd be 'good guy Greg'. He's almost always got a smile on his face and you would have better luck convincing Wikipedia to unban Stephen Colbert than you would offending Yamamoto. He's got the patience of a saint and is very hard to anger. However, Yamamoto is much more complicated than he appears. In the beginning of the series, while people were fond and chummy with Yamamoto, girls formed possessive fanclubs about him, he didn't particularly have any close friends. He appeared to be the untouchable good-guy jock. He also attempted suicide at one point, so it's safe to assume while he is generally easy-going and good natured, he's prone to bottling things up. A recurring theme with Yamamoto is that there is always more going on than there appears.
Running with this theme, Yamamoto can come off as kind of a dufus, His grades aren't stellar, and he often blatantly ignores the obvious to the point where one could argue some sort of comprehension deficiency. However, he's good enough at acting that he actually makes people believe he's that spectacularly dense. In truth, he's one of the sharpest members of the Vongola, as Reborn (mentor of the group) has stated. Yamamoto's grades are low simply because he's too preoccupied with baseball and lets his grades slip. When he puts forth the effort he's very quick at picking up on things on his own. The biggest facade he has is his involvement with the Vongola. He always brushes it off saying it's a 'fun role playing game', despite nearly getting eaten by sharks, getting pulled into the future, as well as a number of other dangerous and occasionally ridiculous events. However, it's not a perfect facade. He breaks it on a few occasions, one being to give his friend a good punch in the face (because this is how you fix people's problems in Shounen) and verbally lecture him on what good he's doing for the family with his attitude. The facade seems to be more of a safeguard than anything, so that he can fall back into his favorite hobby whenever he wants and not feel pressured by the Vongola.
For a good while, Yamamoto struggled weighing the importance of his favorite sport, baseball, and his friends and the Vongola. He would worry about getting hurt severe enough to prevent him from playing, and would hold back when it came to fighting. His suicide attempt was in part because he had gotten injured and might have to sit out the season (it can be speculated that there was more than that going on, but it's not elaborated, for headcanon reasons I am going to claim that the 'untouchable good-guy jock' act was weighing on him a bit too much). Over time the Vongola won out, but it doesn't mean he's any less enthusiastic about his sport. He's got a competitive spirit, and despite having baseball on the brain, it shows in more than just his chosen sport. While at first he refused his father's teachings on the family sword style, he picked it up for the sake of his friends, and whenever he finds a good opponent he gets a charge in fighting them. His fights are always good natured though, he doesn't aim to kill and if his opponent perishes for one reason or another (an outside source, sharks, ect.) he gets visibly upset, which for him is saying something. It's also rare for him to fight out of anger, as one of his greatest strengths is his ability to keep a cool head in heated moments Most of the time anyway, the previously mentioned face-punching and lecturing while necessary could have been done at a better time when someone wasn't trying to kill him (Luckily their attacker found their teenage hissy-fits amusing and let them be while he sat back and popcorn.gifed). There are a few moments when he becomes irritated, but in the entirety of almost 400 chapters, Yamamoto is only seen getting table-flipping angry once. And that one time he was fighting a century-old illusionist (the big bad boss of the arc), and by employing tactics and strategies in a cool-headed manner, Yamamoto sent him crawling away with his tail between his legs to regroup. This was just after Yamamoto had been healed from aforementioned shish-kabobbing.
Despite his perception on situations, his ability to play up a facade, Yamamoto does still have his derpy teenage boy moments when he's let his guard down. When
the world's most obnoxious small childone of his younger friends, Lambo, enters a room after a bath informing those in the dining area that "in the bath... THERE'S A BUNCH OF BOOBIES!" Yamamoto drops his drink and starts having an awkward flailing and choking moment with his friend Tsuna. And over the course of the series, Yamamoto lets his guard down more and more, using the facade less. It's still there, just simply added on as a kind of afterthought, at least with his friends in the Vongola. To strangers, while he's faster to open up than before, there's still an initial time when he slips back into it for comforts sake.Overall, Yamamoto is a good kid who pretends to be normal, but has some unique quirks to him and a bucket of issues under the surface. He's a patient, laid back, calm, and good-natured baseball nerd, who will drop his bat and take up a sword for the sake of his friends.
Abilities/Powers: Leaving links to the wikis for any clarifications... as well as to prevent this section from ending up longer than the personality section
it's happened to me before, sadly.Shigure Soen Ryu : A sword style he inherited from his father, said to be the 'prefect technique'.
Rain Flame: Like most video games and a good deal of Shounen series, 'Dying Will Flames' are Katekyo Hitman Reborn's Shounen-laser of choice. There are several elements to them, each with different properties. Yamamoto's dying will flames takes form in a blue liquid-like flame called the rain flame. The property of these flames is 'tranquility', in term of application this means that it primarily works in weakening. When used against other attacks it slows them and weakens their power, it can also be applied to illusions- weakening them enough to break them/see through them. When applied to people it can slow them or stop them completely.
To put this in terms of an RPG, with along with his use of weapons and physical strength, Yamamoto is a debuff tank.
Vongola Ring/Vonolga Gear: The Vongola ring was a ring that helps the user channel their flames. The Vongola rings were a high level ring that could take a very high flame output. Within the ring is also the 'will' (fancy canon term for ghost aparently) of the first Vongola guardian of that ring. For Yamamoto the will inside is Ugetsu Asari. It doesn't particularly come into effect, there was only one instance where the wills could make themselves known, and it is not likely to happen again.
Also, when alit the ring can be inserted into a special box and unlock weapons for that flame element. The weapons can rage from actual weapons (swords and such) or fancy weaponized animals. Depending on the box the animal can attack or in some cases can even fuse to certain weapons to upgrade it. Also, the more animalistic box weapons have some sort of mental bond with their owner. They often share moods, or the animal will act more freely on the owner's inert desires I.E. Owner is engaged in a conversation they don't want to be in, the animal will outright turn-tail and run.
But you see. Something funny happened. The rings broke. So the Vongola rings were combined with the box weapons and got fixed with a handy dandy power upgrade. They became 'Vongola Ore' which, when input with a whooole bunch of dying will flames
in a really dramatic fashionthey became the 'Vongola gear'. Yamamoto's will take the form of a necklace. The necklace basically has the same function as the ring, only now providesa Sailor Moon-esque transformation sequencedifferent weapons. Will be elaborated on later.Vongola "Box" Weapons: Box weapons come in small boxes that could fit into the palm of one's hand, however because of some 'wibbly wobbly timey-wimey' things, Yamamoto's box weapons now come fused with his Vongola Gear Necklace thingy... yet are still called box weapons. We don't ask questions in Shounen series anymore.
Jirou: Jirou takes the form of an Akita, a classic Japanese guard dog. It's got teeth, claws, it's pretty big, and he helps Yamamoto hold swords. After his recent power-upgrade, Jirou can also cambio-forma with one of Yamamoto's swords... and makes the sword capable of smelling which is handy when you have sneaky hiding opponeents. And that's about it. For all intensive purposes, Jirou is a big cute fluffy dog.
Kojirou: Kojirou takes the form of a small swallow, and like most things with Yamamoto what you see is not exactly what you get. While the large weaponized guard dog is essentially a dog, the little tiny bird is, in fact, what is going the screw you over. When it flies and flits about it can dowse foes from overhead with rain flames, or it can fly around them for a more concentrated attack. It can also fuse with Yamamoto's sword to upgrade enough to channel rain flames more efficiently.
Ugetsu's four irregular swords: These four sword come out with Jirou, and they consist of one long sword and three short swords. To most this would be an unwieldy and clumsy sword combination, however, Yamamoto's height and build allow him to do so more efficiently.
And I know this because I read junk of samurai as one of my many nerdly hobbiesCambio Forma Version Vongola Gear: While Yamamoto still has access to his other cambio forma and weapons, with the Vongola gear, the weapons he summons forth are more personalized for him and not simply a predecessors hand-me-downs. Jirou and Kojirou fuse with his two swords and he can utilize them for a number of combination techniques.
Oops I just accidentally a hole in your wall: Aside from all the amazing shiny shounen lasers, Yamamoto is tremendously strong, and occasionally has issues holding back, especially when it comes to anything baseball related. For example, when someone asks him to 'toss then something' he will pitch it at them full throttle like it were a baseball. He has imbedded a ball into a concrete wall by accident like this.
Sample Entry: Because every game with a Yamamoto is destined for one of these posts sooner or later
Sample Entry Two:
Yamamoto looked out the window over the surrounding town below. He could hear the people in the room talking, some arguing, other's panicking, but he just remained calm and placid on the outside. He was only in the bloody hospital scrubs and his jacket, he had been just about to run for his clothes when... well, he passed out and ended up here he guessed. Part of him wondered if it was his fault for pushing himself so hard, if he hadn't passed out then he wouldn't have ended up here right? But this could have also been something Byakuran did, maybe that was why he had passed out? But then why did he give him the Vongola ore?
The teen stifled a sigh, he didn't want to bring any attention to himself to the others in the room. He still needed to get his thoughts together. Everything happened so fast, being attacked in the changing room, the surgery, the sudden healing, and he was up and on his way to try and help deal with the crisis with the Simon Family... and now he wasn't. Not too hard when he thought about it simply like that, it was just a very abrupt change. He could manage, he was sure, he just need a moment to think. He was scared, but otherwise okay. Still a bit whoozy maybe, not sure the healing did much to get rid of the fog from the pain killers. But he could walk. He could feel his legs again and everything. He would be okay. He wasn't sure he was only surrounded by strangers here either. There were probably more people in other rooms. Maybe his friends were here too, and where would they be if he was just moping like this? They were probably scared too.
Finally he stepped back and turned to face the people in the room with him. He could face them now, talk to them, things couldn't be as bad as they seemed.
-> ACCEPTED
-> NOTE
Thank you.