Nickname
Call him Taiki-chan- "No."
Gender
Male
Age
17
Sexuality
Single
Love Interest
The Quiet and melancholic student has captured his attention. No matter how hard he tries not to, he cannot help but stare at her and try to talk to her. It confuses and infuriates him that anyone could cause the careful walls he built around himself to crumble.
Spot/ Role
The Student Body President
Face Claim
Mashima Taichi
Appearance Details
"What do I look like? ... I have two arms... Two legs... Pink hair." Well, you know how guys are. Yamada cannot describe how he looks to save his lfie. Yamada is on the tall side, at about 6"1. His hair is naturally black, but over the years, Yamada has decided to dye it pink because he thinks he rather looks good with it that way. His eyes are what you might call hazel. They are the color of flames and can shift between yellowish red to yellowish brown. Althought Yamada is a tall person, he is far from being a stick figure. Rather, he possesses lean strong muscles, a result from his studying of martial arts, particularly Tai-Chi. He tends to dress in dark colors such as black, a forest greenm, or dark blue.
Personality
☑ Being in Control
☑ Italian Food
☑ Sweets
☑ Friends (unknown to himself)
☑ Martial Arts
☒ Chaos
☒ Miss Meli's random actions
☒ Being Vulnerable
☒ Stupidity
☒ Being Alone
Yamada may be what you would call a bit of a cold personality. He does not have too many true friends, though he has plenty of acquaintences, admirers, and even minions. He does not enjoy showing his vulnerable side, but at the same time, he enjoys dissecting other peopl'es emotions, hopes, fears, desires, and weaknesses. He possesses a certain confidence that comes from being born into wealth and possessing a great intellect, greater than most of those around him. He is not afraid to defend his viewpoints with a calm, logical argument while appealing to certain values that his audience holds. Yamada can be slightly manipulative and almost single-minded in pursuit of his goals and desires. Nonetheless, he can be quite charming and persuasive. Yamada has a great gift when it comes to reading people and becomes intrigued when he senses there is more to someone than meets the eye. That may be one of the reasons why he is attracted to his crush. Yamada is a natural leader and often assumes people will listen to him. When crossed, however, he can be quite cruel.
Nonetheless, Yamada has a soft side to him. He never deliberately goes out of his way to make trouble for people who have done him no harm and often finds himself annoyed with people who are needlessly cruel. He also has a slight vulnerability about him when it comes to things that he cannot control. He hates it when one of his plans falls apart and he doesn't know how to salvage the situation. He has a need to be in control of every situation he finds himself in and can panic when things are going terribly wrong. He is also quite lonely. He is admired by many people at school, but he has no true friends. This loneliness is compounded by his family situation. His parents are divorced and do not often pay much attention to him and he is used to a large empty house greeting him.
Family
- Father - Alive: Is usually found in New York on Wall Street
- Mother - Alive: As a model, she is often on the fashion scene, modeling clothes or living it up with friends.
Brief History
Yamada Taiki was born to an American businessman and a Japanese model in Tokyo 17 years ago. The two had randomly met at a mutual friend's party in his penthoues and thanks to a combination of alcohol, flirtation, and mutual lust, they slept together and Yamada's mother became pregnant with him. To their credit, they married and raised Yamada for the first five years of his life together, but they were two fundamentally different people. They divorced and for a while, Yamada was shuttled between the United States and Japan, learning both English and Japanese. However, as he grew older, both of his parents began to focus more on their own lives: his father on the Wall Street life and his mother on the glamors of being a successful model. Thus, begining in middle school, Yamada visited his father only rarely and was responsible for himself. He tells himself that he doesn't need his parents and refuses to feel anything about their absence.
As a rich kid with a semi-famous mother, Yamada was all but guaranteed in the popular clique at school. Nonetheless, though he enjoys his popularity, he doesn't really like too many of the popular kids. Throughout Middle School and High School, he has invested his time in a number of extraciricular activities, his favorites being martial arts and Student Council. On the Sudent Council, he enjoyed maneuvering his way to the position of Student Body President, exhilerated by the thrill of defeating his rivals and enjoying the power he has over influencing life at school. It is in martial arts, however, that Yamada regularly lets out steam. As he practices martial arts, the pain he feells is expressed through kicks, punches, grabs, and throws, sometiems causing injury to an unexperienced oppponent.
For awhile now, he could not help but become interested in a particular girl, Tembelle Yuu P. He can tell she is different from others and he has found himself staring at her and wanting to talk with her. For this reason, he followed her to Theatre Club, quite surprised by his own actions.
