Name: Yukio Peterson (his Japanese mum won the baby naming rights)
Nickname: DJ Buster
Gender/Pronoun: he/him
Age: 21
Birthday: 23 December 2000
Sign: Capricorn
School: Destiny City University, 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.)
Occupation: freelance computer programming wizard by day, DJ by night, spinning at parties and clubs across town
Hobbies:Computer Programming for Fun and Profit: 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. His clients would hate him for that, if he wasn't so good.
l33t h4xx0r: This is where the "fun" part of his programming sideline comes in. Hacking is to him the ultimate game: get in, get out, don't get caught. 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. He's a skilled hacker and has experience breaking codes on multiple platforms. 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.
DJ-ing: 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.
Virtues: Cool: Yukio is 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, observations on the situation. He's so cool that one might feel obliged to check for a pulse every now and then.
Loyal: 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.
Hopeful: The one thing that underlies everything Yukio says or does is hope. Hope motivates him to keep up the deception toward his parents, hoping he can figure out a way to gracefully extricate himself from the lies before they find out; hope keeps him falling in love way too quickly and easily, thinking this time might actually be The One; hope even drives him to maintain his stone-faced outward appearance, allowing him the time to fully assess a situation or experience to see if it's worth pursuing or opening up to. Sometimes this seeps out through his facade, usually in times of crisis, revealing his true sweet, trusting inner nature.
Flaws: Impassive: 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
anything. 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.
Hopelessly Devoted: Yes, this is 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 and eternally hopeful, 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...
Defeatist: ...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.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONEyes: His eyes are golden-yellow and almond-shaped, with short thick black lashes and topped with thick dark eyebrows (expressionless save for the occasional single "huh" eyebrow arch); they're usually hidden behind round rainbow mirror finish shades.
Hair: His
hair 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.
Face: Yukio's
face 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..
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.
Skin Tone: He's got a fairly average complexion, neither dark nor pale. Being half-Japanese, he tends toward the darker side of fair.
Body Type: At 6'2", Yukio is
whip-thin, 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).
Clothes: 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.
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