Some More Heroes infodump!

[thaumatic]

☣CHARACTER;
Name: Yosuke Hanamura
Alias: n/a
Series: Persona 4 (Video Game)
Canon Point: Entering the TV World to save Naoto Shirogane
Age: 18
Rank: 33


Weapon: Repulsor gauntlets, gloves that fire beams of concussive force in the form of long-distance shots or close-range shockwaves.
Personality: Yosuke is the quintessential loser. Whenever something bad can possibly happen to him, it usually happens. He's awkward, he's clumsy, and he tends to get frequently injured in freak accidents that can be attributed equally to bad luck and self-infliction. Due to all of these terrible qualities, Yosuke firmly believes the world, nay, the universe itself is out to get him, just for a laugh. He's definitely a 'glass is half empty' kind of guy in almost every situation, at least on the inside. What he shows to others is another matter entirely.

Deep inside, Yosuke is terribly lonely, with little aptitude whatsoever toward actually connecting to anyone beyond a superficial level. Yosuke doesn't want attention so much as he needs it: to be the center of everyone's world and the guy everyone knows they can always turn or look up to. Unfortunately, he lacks significant social skills and has a hard time opening up to show someone how he really is, as much as he yearns to be around people. People are frightening when you start getting into the little details of your life, and though he'll do everything he can to get you to pay attention and speak to him, he'll be on tenterhooks the whole time to make sure it's a positive impression. Before things turned around for him, he stopped even seeing people as people, but more as things he could use for his own benefit, to make his own life more bearable and nothing else. It took the death of Saki Konishi, someone he thought he loved, for him to come to realize just how warped his view of the world was.

Despite all this, Yosuke isn't as emo as one would initially expect. He keeps an upbeat, happy attitude, spiked only occasionally with bouts of extreme cynicism. He's learned to laugh at himself, twisting his awful luck and tendency toward injury to make himself look like a bit of a clown. This image is carefully cultivated, sometimes on purpose to make people smile and sometimes entirely by accident because he tends to be so clumsy. He puts on a happy face for the world around him, especially for strangers, and is swift to attempt to move in and turn a person from an unknown into a friend. Once he's decided he likes you, Yosuke will stick by you for life, or at least until he gets some sort of clue that you don't actually like him all that much.

When he lived in a big city, before moving to Inaba, Yosuke was able to drown out his loneliness by surrounding himself with people. In Inaba, a tiny, tiny town, he couldn't do this anymore. There just weren't enough faces to go around, and to top that off, many people outright hated him for his father's store and nothing he actually had a hand in. Though he formed a couple friendships with a handful of people, there were frequent times when he was absolutely crushed by the feeling that he was alone in the world. Thanks to his true bonds with Souji Seta and the other members of the Investigation Team, his issues concerning being alone have taken a mighty beating, but he's still the kind of guy that will go to a party, invited or not, just to be around as many people as he can. Having done a lot of good and learned to accept who he is and the people around him, Yosuke has matured significantly and, though still a juvenile little dork a lot of the time, has become a better person all around.

☣PERMISSIONS;
OOC;
backtagging: Yes, forever.
threadjacking: Go for it.
character recognition: If you want to break his brain, go nuts.
offensive subjects: Nothing I can think of.

IC;
injury: Uh... let's just avoid overly-graphic descriptions of extreme blood and gore. Otherwise, hey, let's go.
death: Maybe. Gimme a ring first.
warnings: Yosuke is (relatively) trauma-free. Whatevah, whatevah, let's just go!

☣OTHER: I like pie!

☣OOC CONTACT;
mun journal. odawgg
aim screenname. excitate99
plurk. odawg <- preferred contact, just add me