GENERAL INFORMATION
Role: Vagabond
Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Matsuba (Pine needle)
Gender: Male
Age: 18
APPEARANCE
Height: 6'2â
Weight: 170
Build: medium, athletic
Eye Color: Red
Hair Color: Auburn
Appearance: Yuuma is hard-faced and distant except for his smile. When it's cold he's usually wearing his green leather overcoat as to not get wet during long walks through the country. The antennae sticking out of the hairpiece on his head move of their own accord though he tries not to move them on his own. Yuuma is well muscled from a lot of hiking across country but has a medium athletic build.
Outfit: Yuuma mostly wears long simple green robes that are easily repairable and have few seams. There's usually a slightly off-color patches on the robe but they're stained by the use of plants giving him the ever-present scent of leaves and pine needles. Yuuma keeps himself well and is self-reliant carrying his things in a woven randoseru thatched to keep out the rain. His hands are calloused but well-kept as with his demeanor
MENTALITY
Opinions:
- The Police: As long as he doesn't cause trouble they leave him alone and vice versa.
- The City: He might stay a while the city is verdant and welcoming. He'll need somewhere to stay for winter anyway.
- The People in Shikkun: While he doesn't look like a good mark Yuuma knows when there's a predator on his tail. But assumes it's as likely there's at least as many in this city as good people.
- New Travelers: Yuuma will talk to anyone and does so. He likes very much to meet the souls along the road rather than walk by them.
- Friends: He has some that would remember his name well and places he could go for help but he's ever a wandering soul.
- Family: He has several but they're as distant as himself. They keep in touch by mail to members that can no longer wander
Likes: The mountains, the petrichor after a good rain, meeting new people and seeing new places
Fears: being hunted or imprisoned, while he might stay a while it bothers him that he might be killed along the road or imprisoned and does not deal with angry or menacing people well.
Personality: Yuuma is a soul full of wonder with a hard backing. While his touch might be soft and daydream at a good vista his hard and calloused hands are controlled and measured. His demeanor is confident and while he won't back down from a fight won't engage if he doesn't have to.
COMBAT
Weapons: In two small pits at the bottom sides of his randoseru are one tanto and one Kiridashi utility knife which he is able to use.
Fighting Style: Akido
HISTORY
Relationship Status: Single
Family: Mother, Grandmother, four siblings
Personal History/Background: Yuuma was born in the back country and raised among the hills and mountains. He gained an appreciation and knowledge for the forest and was able to forage on his own for days very young. While intelligent Yuuma was schooled by his mother and father the breadth of his knowledge mostly comes from the people he meets along the roads. His parents were very laid back and as the children slowly left home to make their own way Yuuma left as well. His mother was never one to keep a husband and raised the children capably on her own so while Yuuma is very fond of family his sense of fatherhood is distant at best. He's had to learn many skills to exist as a vagabond among them combat to fend off predators human and animal alike.
OTHER: While Yuuma can eat meat he is never seen to. Instead he has a strange affinity for eating whatever recognizable plants he comes across. In spite of this an uncannily iron stomach protects him from everything but abjectly poisonous or unknown ones which he avoids until he knows better. He has a curious ability to recognize people standing behind him and the hairy bangs by his face never separate.