Name: Riku Tatsuhana
[Younger brother of
Haruhi Tatsuhana; permission was granted to use the name!
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Nickname: Riku's usually short enough!
Gender/Pronoun: Cis man, he/him
Age: 19 20
Birthday: June 12, 2004
Sign: Gemini
School/Occupation: Destiny City University, English major; also a VTuber specializing in horror games
Hobbies:Paranormal Activity || Riku loves ghost stories--telling, hearing, watching, playing. Give him that good horror s**t and he will gleefully eat it up. He especially loves living in Destiny City, which is so full of ghost stories it might as well be bursting. He's not exactly a ghost hunter himself, but he does love listening to other people's stories!
Video Games || Technically, this is also his job, but outside streaming horror games as a vtuber, Riku enjoys lighter RPGs and especially otome games and dating simulators in general. And yes, he shamelessly uses guides to make sure he gets to see every ending with every hot girl or pretty boy. He generally prefers not to stream these, though his viewers have been nudging him to do so, since he wants to keep those specifically for himself.
Reading || Specifically, reading light novels. He's a big lover of the otome isekai genre, and isekais and transmigration stories in general, but he'll also read just about anything else, including some truly spectacular trashfires. Sometimes, garbage is fun, and sometimes, there's even something to salvage out of the dumpster!
Fanfiction || Riku is a shipper extraordinaire. This is often where the work of salvaging bad isekais goes--either he'll latch onto a particular character and write a ton of fic about them, or he'll take the better parts of the premise and use them as an AU for one of his many, many ships. It's all a good time, anyway!
Virtues:Hardworking || Riku always gives everything he does his all. There's no point if you don't, anyway, as far as he's concerned; maximum effort for maximum results! This means that if he says he'll do something, it will get done, and that he pursues his goals with dogged determination. There is simply no other option, as far as he's concerned. Why put in any effort at all if you're not going to give things your best?
Unruffled || Riku doesn't get anxious, or scared, or nervous, or jumpy, really. He takes most things head-on, with calm and aplomb, be they setbacks in his projects or jumpscares in a game. Life goes better if you roll with the punches, and Riku is very, very good at rolling with them. He doesn't do drama, or overreactions for views, or anything else--he's just here to get through, and he's getting.
Flaws:Over-Focused || Riku can be...very narrowly focused on his goals. He will throw his all into projects and forget that other things exist. This causes all sorts of problems, when he lets silly things like "self-care" and "socializing offstream" and "sleep" go by the wayside because he's finishing something. After all, he's hiding behind a vtuber avatar, so his viewers don't know that his hair's a mess and he slept two hours last night so he has
mondo dark circles under his eyes.
Stubborn || When Riku gets an idea in his head, he absolutely will not let it go. Sometimes these ideas are bad ideas. Sometimes they're perfectly good, but his refusal to change means they become rigid, fixed blocks that will not be moved. Ultimately, Riku simply does not like admitting that he was wrong, or that he overestimated his abilities, or that he made a wrong decision. That doesn't happen to him, nope. So he will stubbornly pursue things, even if it has clearly become an irrational or ridiculous choice. Damn the cannons, full speed ahead.
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