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[b]Name:[/b] Yukio Peterson (his Japanese mum won the baby naming rights)
[b]Nicknames:[/b] DJ Buster
[b]Pronouns:[/b] he/him
[b]Age:[/b] 21
[b]Birthday:[/b] 23 December 2000

[b]School:[/b] Treva College, supposedly… (he stopped going to classes in freshman year after a bad breakup and has been lying to his parents, who live in San Francisco and are funding him and think he's still in school; his "help with homework" emails with his computer-scientist father have actually helped in this, and between that and the freelance gigs he has probably learned more than he would have had he actually continued with his education. As for his parents, he has orchestrated things so he has them completely fooled. For now.)

[b]Occupation:[/b] freelance computer programming wizard by day, DJ by night, spinning at parties and clubs across town


[b]Hobbies:[/b]

[list] [*] [i]Computer Programming for Fun and Profit --[/i] Yukio is not a hardware specialist at all -- he prefers his b0xen pre-built -- but he can program like the wind. As a freelance computer software engineer, he has written software and firmware and apps and has coded website applets for some of the biggies (though he scrupulously avoids the company his dad works for, lest they inadvertently ruin his deception). He's a programming polyglot who writes the most obfuscated code you can imagine, sprinkled with easter eggs and tricks and traps. His clients would hate him for that, if he wasn't so good.

[*] [i]l33t h4xx0r --[/i] This is where the "fun" part of his programming sideline comes in. Hacking is to him the ultimate trickster game: get in, commit mischief, get out, don't get caught. As with most of his pranking, Yukio is a subtle hacker -- he's not one to crack a website and leave "J00 H4S B33N H4XX0R3D BY L33T M4ST4" or ridiculous nonsense like that. And he can crack just about anything, including game platforms, social networking sites, security systems, and cell phones. Muahahah. One of his primary hacks is ghosting himself across the internet, finding any trace of himself (outside of the important identity stuff) and erasing it. His father is l33t too, and he doesn't want him to find out what he's really been up to.

[*] [i]DJ-ing --[/i] As DJ Buster, he's dynamic, energetic, and fun to watch, doing a slinky-snaky dance behind his decks, bouncing and concocting what aural change-ups he's going to throw at the crowd next like a mad sound scientist. And from the reactions he gets, his audience appreciate his efforts. The stuff he spins incorporates twacked-out breaks and whiplash-inducing transitions designed to keep people on their toes, and he layers a lot of his own sound work into his mixes. He shares some of his work online, too, for others to sample and include in their own mixes -- he loves hearing what others do with his stuff, as much as he loves watching people express their joy dancing to it -- and streams performances on Youtube regularly. Buster spins mostly EDM, but he'll in truth spin whatever the situation calls for, from the 80s and 90s to present day stuff.

[*] [i]Collecting Sounds --[/i] As a DJ and sampler, sound fascinates Yukio. He carries a small high-quality digital recorder everywhere, just in case he hears something interesting he might want to replicate, though sometimes he'll just use his phone. For more serious sound-collecting, sampling sounds for tweaking later, he has a larger rig bodged together from a digital recording deck, a marine battery, and a collection of microphones (including a homemade parabolic mic on a pole) crammed into an old rucksack. The police have determined he's harmless and don't bother him any longer… For tweaking sounds at home, he hooks his DJ laptop up to the deck from his sound-collecting rig and an old oscilloscope so he can see what the sound looks like as he's shaping it.
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[b]Pros:[/b]

[list][*] [b]Count On Me[/b] [i]Reliable --[/i] Yukio is Captain Reliable. Look beyond the shades and the crazy hats and flat demeanor, and you'll see he's actually a fairly serious, sensible young man with a strong sense of personal responsibility. Trustworthy and punctual, he's a man of his word. If someone asks him to be someplace, he'll be there fifteen minutes before he needs to be, completely prepared and ready to go. If he's agreed to do something, he'll follow through with it and have the task completed ahead of schedule. If a thing needs doing and no-one else has stepped up to do it, he will. He's what's referred to in the business world as a "team player."

[*] [b]Mr Frosty[/b] [i]Cool --[/i] Yukio is also about as cool a customer as you'll come across. The furthest thing possible from a panic puppy, his apparent unflappability is more than a facade. Calm, stable and sensible, he won't freak out or fly off the handle under pressure. He's a rock, desperately sane and more than happy to provide a reality check or a voice of reason; he radiates stability and happily serves as anchor with his calm, rock-steady presence and rational, if impassive and/or cryptic, observations on the situation. He's so cool that one might feel obliged to check for a pulse every now and then.

[*] [b]Heart on His Sleeve[/b] [i]Loyal --[/i] It takes a rather a lot of persistence to get there, but once Yukio adds you to his very short list of close friends, it's for life. He's a true-blue loyal friend in return, quietly companionable and subtly demonstrative (his friends, at the very least, can expect little surprise packages containing custom mixes on thumb drives from him, with music he's selected based on what he thinks they'll like). At the heart of it, he's a trusting soul, and returns the trust he's given in spades.

[*] [b]I've Got a Bad Feeling About This[/b] [i]Intuitive --[/i] Yukio discovered fairly early on in life that he has an uncanny knack for reading people and situations. Observant and sharp as a tack, he always seemed to know when his mum wanted him home, for example, and he could always second-guess what his teachers expected of him beyond instructions given for an assignment. The tingly feeling he'd get in his gut was his cue to start really paying attention to what was going on, and he still pays attention to it most of the time. It's a good idea to listen to him when he says he's got a funny feeling about something...
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[b]Cons:[/b]

[list] [*] [b]Semi-Detached[/b] [i]Impassive --[/i] Yukio comes across as somewhat distant and impassive, and it's more than simply due to his deadpan expression and cool demeanor. He's not cold, not by any stretch -- he just doesn't allow himself to feel anything for others unless he's very close to them. He can detach himself emotionally from people and situations to the point where he simply does not feel [i]anything[/i]. It's very much a defense mechanism, and a form of self-protection. Don't mistake his dissociation for pushing down his feelings, because it's much... cleaner than that; he's not so much suppressing his emotions as cutting them off entirely.

[*] [b]Heart on His Sleeve[/b] [i]Hopelessly Devoted --[/i] Yes, this is both a strength and a weakness, and the exception to the coolness and impassiveness above. If you can manage to worm your way past the poker face and burrow through the dissociation blast shield -- and this is not a task for the faint of heart, or the impatient -- you'll find at the core a desperately sweet man who's warm and compassionate, if extremely particular about whom he feels compassion for. He will take stupid risks to protect those he cares about, both friends and lovers. And oh dear, is Yukio a fool for love. He falls in love far too quickly and so very hard and with exactly the wrong people, despite what his instincts tell him; he brushes the feelings off by telling himself that no, it's really different this time...

[*] [b]My Own Worst Enemy[/b] [i]Defeatist --[/i] ...when, almost certainly, it isn't. And when things inevitably turn sour, he bashes himself unmercifully for not listening to his intuition, falls into a self-loathing funk, dissociates himself from his battered heart, and the cycle continues, like an emotional Möbius strip. His intuition lapses regarding romance are his biggest weakness, and he hates that he does it EVERY DAMN TIME because he clearly should know better. Yukio hates himself for other reasons too, such as personal failure or the lies he's perpetrating to his parents.

[*] [b]Snakebite[/b] [i]Vengeful --[/i] Once he's done beating on himself, though, Yukio turns his sights on whoever it was who done him or someone he cares about wrong. He can be very vindictive and spiteful when he or someone he's close to has been hurt, and his revenge is often in the form of a vicious prank. And if he can't hurt the one who hurt him, or if the one who hurt him is himself, he will target the nearest available person who has hurt anyone he cares about. His need for vengeance is toxic and will eat him alive if he doesn't get it out of his system one way or another.
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[align=center][b]General Appearance[/b][/align]

[size=11]Yukio's [url=http://tatterpixie.suniver.net/by-moonlight/yukio-face.jpg]face[/url] is a bit too masculine to truly be termed "heart-shaped," but that's the closest description of the shape, with a strong, angular jawline and chin. His nose is straight and of average width, if a touch long; his mouth is also of average width (and usually expressionless) with fairly full lips. He's got a fairly average complexion, neither dark nor pale. His eyes are golden-yellow and almond-shaped, with short thick black lashes and topped with thick dark eyebrows (again, expressionless save for the occasional single "huh" eyebrow arch); they're usually hidden behind round rainbow mirror finish shades.

Note the word "expressionless". Yukio has one of the best poker faces you'll find anywhere. It's exceedingly rare to see him even smile, which is a shame, because he has a warm, friendly smile that immediately softens his features and lets at least a bit of the inner Yukio show through.

His [url=http://tatterpixie.suniver.net/by-moonlight/yukio-mission.jpg]hair[/url] is blue, a very bright blue. Stick-straight and uneven in length, extending from his collarbone to the bottom of his shoulder blades in chunks, he usually knots it back in a spiky ponytail sticking straight out the back of his head and often held in place with a hair stick, with choppy spiky fringe that varies in length from just past the tip of his nose to his adam's apple, all of it artfully hanging in his face. Super-spiking hair spackle is Yukio's friend.

At 6'2", Yukio is [url=http://tatterpixie.suniver.net/by-moonlight/yukio-dance01.jpg]whip-thin[/url], but not scrawny; he's got the lean, ropy musculature of a distance runner, with shoulders of moderate width, narrow hips, and long skinny legs. His hands are in proportion with his body, equipped with long quick fingers (tipped with black nail lacquer; he paints his toenails black, too).

Yukio's preferred outfits consist of pullover sweaters and t-shirts, either single or layered, in a crazy-quilt of colors and patterns, with skinny jeans or leather pants and sneakers or tatami flipflops. And a hat of some kind. Yukio LOVES hats; he has like a million of them, and is almost never seen without something on his head, though he has his favorites, like his vintage leather aviator helmet complete with goggles.[/size]