Player: Stoncius

Link: belligerent.deviantart.com

Character Name: Jiro Yoritomo

Age: 27

Sex: Man

Species: Hokkaido dog

Height/Weight: 5'10", 160

Social Status: Outer Class

Physical Description: Though perhaps not Einheit's most spectacular physical specimen, the ainu ken still manages to stand out. At first glance, the dog's appearance might suggest an oddly-colored husky, but on closer inspection, his features hint at something more exotic. The eyes are part of what gives it away, narrowed, dark, and distinctly almond-shaped. The blue-black color of his tongue, however, is what really identifies him as an Asian breed. Somewhat broad shoulders taper down to a thin waist and slim hips, dense fur giving the illusion of somewhat greater volume about his torso. Under that fur, his muscles are toned and wiry, without any excess bulk or much in the way of bodyfat. Sort of on the "obsessively thin" side, but genetics help with that, too.

The majority of his coloring is a pale cream, lightening to nearly white at his throat, chest, and stomach. Across his shoulders and down his back is a dusting of faintly reddish fur, which continues along the top of his curling, husky-like tail. Fairly good-looking, his facial features are about two notches to the masculine side of androgynous. His hair (the same sort of strawberry blond color that's on his back) falls to just below the top of his shoulders and is typically pulled back in a severe ponytail.

What usually sets the dog apart is the manner in which he is dressed; he sort of has a thing for leather and straps. Though that could probably be said about many people in Einheit, few take it as far as Jiro does. Typically clad in a pair of leather pants (lo-rise, and tight in all the right places) and harness-style motorcycle boots, he is also in the habit of wearing things like elbow-length fingerless gloves and any number of leather straps and belts wound around his limbs; he often wears a studded, leather collar (and sometimes also a choke chain). He also always wears some form of rather bone-creakingly tight harness around his torso, often under his clothes, though he presumably takes it off to shower. For cold weather (is there really any other kind?) he has a long, black leather coat which takes a ridiculous amount of time to put on, given all its buckles and straps, or occasionally, a more practical sport style motorcycle jacket in the Kamikaze Motor Co. racing colors. Very aware of the impression he makes on others, occasionally he will dress completely differently for no apparent reason other than to throw people off.

Another particularly notable thing about the dog is his voice, which is a deep, gravelly drawl with an odd musical lilt to it. Presumably, this is from years of smoking, as the dog is almost never without a cigarette, though it's possible that he plays up some aspects of it as well. Image is a big part of the Jiro persona.

Background: Jiro has had a particularly uneventful and average life as the second son of a pair of purebred outerclassers. His parents own a popular tea house in one of the nicer sections of Midcity, which is now run by his brother Taro (who will inherit the business, as eldest son) since they have mostly retired. Occasionally Jiro helps out there, but they don't actually pay him anything, so it's really only because of his own whims...which is generally how he lives his life, drifting from odd job to failed business ventures to apprenticeships to stints as a student, whichever seems most interesting and most lucrative at the moment.

Currently, Jiro is employed part-time as a clerk for TOO EDGY, which is a rather Hot Topic-like store in a downtown Midcity mall, mostly shopped at by angry outerclass teenagers who want to rebel against their parents by wearing trendy, gothy, vaguely fetishy (but generally pretty tame) clothes. For now, Jiro finds the store hysterical and takes his job as seriously as possible while he is in the store; afterwards, he laughs about it. Extensively.

Jiro is bilingual (Anglic and Yamato) and occasionally works as a tutor-for-hire. He has a Toride work permit but he finds the place boring, mostly.

He is also enrolled in an outerclass "university" (or what passes for such) in their psychology department and is working on his master's. Supposedly. He's rarely at class, so who knows how that is going.


Personality: Jiro is probably one of the most frustratingly amoral people in the history of the universe. There is no black, and no white, ever. Not even a dark or light grey. In Jiro's world, there are only about fifty bazillion shades of slightly different medium greys; which means he can be exceptionally irritating to talk to, playing devil's advocate on issues he doesn't even have an opinion about, just because. It is sort of obvious from this that he is also intensely, intensely bored, like many who don't particularly have to worry too hard about where their next meal is coming from. Rather than view life as something depressing like "survival," the dog views it as a series of amusements that exist solely for him. When things stop being amusing, they cease being worth his time.

Openly "Buddhist" when it is convenient to be so, "communist" for all the wrong reasons, and existentialist for all other applications, Jiro is not particularly concerned with the well-being of other people, or even many rules, like "no smoking in this building." He's not exactly a criminal; people who break laws get punished for it. That doesn't mean he isn't curious to see how far they'll bend. Luckily for him, he's good at figuring out exactly where the lines are drawn and not quite crossing them.

Despite being rather creepy, he can be oddly charming. He is a good conversationalist and can be friendly. He can even be nice on occasion, but it's usually just to catch people off guard. He likes to cultivate an image and then do something "out of character" to shatter carefully built perceptions and keep people guessing. Narcissistic? Yeah, more or less.

No stranger to vice, the dog drinks often and uses harder drugs recreationally when he can afford them, at all hours of the day. He would probably be far more dangerous and more productive if he were to stop that. But seriously, where's the fun in being productive?


Weapons/Equipment:

-Kamikaze Black Widow 600RZ motorcycle
-Switchblade
-Riding crop